These are a selection of the photos taken by Mike Davies-Shiel of a charcoal burn at Brantwood near Coniston in August 1985.
There are many others relating to charcoal on the Cumbria Archive Service website.
For more about charcoal visit the Woodland Industries page.
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- Stack building (009-0133)
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- Starting the stack (009-0134)
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- Stack shaping up, motty peg in (009-0135)
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- The stack on the plinth. More sammel needed. (009-0140)
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- Putting in first live charcoal (009-0142)
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- Stack roasting after 4 hours (009-0144)
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- Arthur ‘Collier’ attending his baby (009-0147)
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- Stack cooling after changing covers, 7pm Sunday (009-0150)
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- We will have to get back to work. Blue smoke shows that the top of the stack is still burning (009-0151)
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- Saying the hot charcoal (009-0152)
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- Opening the stack – it looks promising (009-0154)
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- Stack structure. Good charcoal up to 6″. (009-0157)
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- First coals out. Cool to handle and thick. (009-0166)
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- Good thick coals (2p piece) (009-0167)
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- Superb charcoal! (009-0169)
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- We did it! (009-0170)
