The firm of Harrison Ainslie & Co. was a British firm of ironmasters and iron ore merchants, selling high quality haematite from their mines on Lindal Moor to smelters in Glasgow, Scotland, South Wales and the Midlands. From a 21st-century perspective, they are more interesting as the last operators of charcoal-fired blast furnaces in Great Britain. Their furnaces were stone-built, water-powered, and much smaller than the coke-fired furnaces of the same era.
Backbarrow Furnace stack.
Steam blowing engine at Backbarrow
Lorn Furnace
Newland Furnace. The blowing chamber with charging floor above is to the left of the stack. The cement scar is from a roof over the waterwheel.
Backbarrow is a village in the Lake District National Park in England. It lies on the River Leven about 5 miles (8 km) northeast of Ulverston in Furness in the county of Cumbria.
The bridge at Backbarrow
Remains of Backbarrow ironworks