Laleston
A Village Full of HistoryQuarries
A number of quarries excised
in Laleston around the 1800's the above picture is the remains of a lime stone kiln hidden in the bushes and trees on the outskirts on the village side of the A48 , the pictures below were taken in the old quarry now overgrown but gives a scale of the operation, there is also an ash dump which covers a large area of the quarry floor.
There are the remains of four old kilns and rail tracks on the opposite side of the A48 which are more recognizable as such but again covered in undergrowth, the tracks would have carried coal to fire the kilns and lime stone to be turned into lime powder for a variety of uses, building, agriculture, lime wash for buildings mixed with ox blood it would add colour to buildings, and it was used in animal bedding to stave of insects.
The site below on the western edge of the village is now the El Prado Bar and Restaurant which was once the site of a stone quarry.
