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My house was built over two hundred years ago and is comprised of three of five original cottages. Two cottages were demolished in the 1940s and the remaining three knocked into one.
During its life time it was on the site of a Bone Grinding Mill, where animal bones were ground up to put into animal food stuff and were used on local farm land. When we had the stone slate roof replaced we found that the stone wall cavities were filled with broken bones. later it became a brick works and evidence of the old bricks can be found in the cellar windows and attic windows which were bricked up and in some of the out buildings which are mostly stone. Finally it became a gannister works when a local firm quarried gannister which was used to line blast furnaces in the steel works.
On old maps it is still marked as brick works but the elderly locals still refer to it as 't' bone hole'. Some one once sent us a postcard from holiday addressed to Bone Hall - it found us even though it was a bone grinding mill in the early 1800's!!!
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