Stormy lime works

The area outside Bridgend has long been associated with lime quarrying and just outside Pyle is an abandoned lime works. The coastal land overlies a rich seam of limestone and as lime is a highly desirable product in a diverse range of industries such as iron smelting, agriculture and home building, lime kilns sprang up all over the area over the past centuries. There is very little information about the operation of this works, but the remnants of this extensive site are an unexpectedly photogenic find. Lots of the textures in the abandoned structures and rotary kilns lend themselves to black and white images and the colours in the rusting machinery against the white textured ground are quite spectacular.