Kettle Ness

Kettle Ness and Kettleness Sands

Thursday 10th September 2015

Cleveland Way Volunteers day today. The weather was absolutely gorgeous, it could have been somewhere in the Mediterranean. We were lucky to be working at Kettleness on the coast, replacing worn out steps, surfacing and gate post replacement.  We worked so hard, we got a slightly early finish. I decided to go for a walk on the Cleveland Way path. There was a very good view looking down onto Runswick Bay, but I chose this view looking onto Kettle Ness. The area around Kettle Ness reveals the industrial rape of the coast to produce Alum, used to fix colours to the fabrics, in the dye industry. What you see is not a landslide, it is the remains of an old industry.