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250 years ago this was one of the most important industrial sites in the UK. Local supplies of coal and limestone meant this was an ideal location for the production of lime, used as a mortar since Roman Times before the discovery of Portland Cement. It was produced on an epic scale, finally closing in the 1950s. The neighbouring village is called Limekilns, and had produced lime for centuries, but landlord Charles Elgin built a new village a mile to the west and built 6, extending to 14, kilns in a manner any industrialist would have been proud. Built into a 10m (30ft) tall cliff the locally mined coal and limestone is easily transported to the top of the kilns where it is added to the kiln in layers. As he coal burns in the limited oxygen environment the lime is extracted and drops to the bottom of the kiln, where it is removed and shipped out in boats (later a train ran along the quay too). Once started this is a continuous process, as the workers extract the lime and spoil from the bottom and feed the kiln with new raw material from the top. Despite its humble, dirty, industrial, beginnings; today this is a quiet, fashionable, place to live by the sea with many fine houses. Behind the scene : how this panorama was made
Kite Aerial Photography Gallery 
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