Red Man's Way

Red Man's Way is a footpath which has been created on a former slag bank site. The area was previously the location of the Iron and Steelworks, which in the 1870s was the biggest Bessemer steel production plant in the world and employed over five thousand men. The processes involved in the industry often left the men covered in red dust, hence the name given to the footpath.

Walney Channel, the remains of the slagbank on the right, Black Combe in the distance

North Scale from the slagbank

Walney Airfield

A plane comes in to land at Walney Airfield

 

 

  All washed up

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

North End of Walney

Jubilee Bridge

 

 

 

 

 

 

Sandscale Haws with the Lake District hill in the background

Black Combe

Pillboxes on the shoreline

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