El Candelero

This curious candlestick marks the highest point of the town of Whitehaven, located in what was formerly a cliff and in earlier times part of the bastion. The views are beautiful: the sea, the harbor, the people and the rugged coastline of this part of the country, but the mystery is to identify what this curious monument exactly is. At first it seems easy but even the locals are not so clear? A commemorative column? A pillar? A monument? The answer to all these questions is no, it was an old factory chimney. Coal was worked there, one of the most famous of northern England during the Industrial Revolution.