This Looks onto the Red Blaze Bing which was left after Oil shale mining.
The main products of the industry were crude oil
which could be fractionally distilled to produce naphtha, burning oil,
cleaning oil and lubricating oil as well as ammonia
The Dixons were regular in their visits to Wilsontown works
and on three visits they and their friends made the Mansion
house their headquarters. They took a keen interest in the
conduct and management of the works and in the affairs of
the neighbourhood, but with all their resources and knowledge
of this class of business they, like their predecessors,
found it difficult to carry on the manufacture of iron at Wilsontown.
Operations were continued at the blast furnaces until the years
1842 but in that year, described as a time of the most gloomy
and unparalleled unenviable distress which had ever before
occurred in the country, they were blown out, never to be lit
again, and the works were finally broken up in the years 1846
and 1848. These years formed part of the decade, which was
aptly described and known for long afterwards as the hungry 'forties.
Thus after a period of three score years, the great adventure of
iron making, begun by the Wilsons of Wilsontown with such high
promise and great expectation, came to an untimely end,
From this time onwards, from an industrial outlook, Wilsontown
became purely a mining community.
this can be a busy path with dog walkers and just walkers alone
so stealth maybe required at times