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I should know that Ice House, Osbourne House from previous School, Geography, or Architecture learning, although I have yet to land on the Isle of Wight, actually I was looking for hydrology, but found it interesting on front page and the history and purpose of the structure are significant, so I was remembering why that is. Most of the structural residue left around England has some feature that places it in the context of farming estates and port transfers, the Aberystwyth slaked lime from imported limestone at dock related to the hill farming pasture improvement, so do the scoured out roads once farm track, cart loads of materials (once I had an interest in cart structures from architectural and school, aircraft and grandfather's farm as model making), but by the 1960s (EG Bowen) the kilns were the remnants of that you can see scattered through Wales of lime deposits, we saw some on Mendip a few weeks ago. Salt and lime, coal obviously, iron residues, timber yards, bridge and tunnel support equipment and old dams as well as gardens left where buildings have fallen, often near subsidence and springs which are useful indicators for hydrology, engineering geology before new works start as to locations of stability issues and road drainages in cuttings. It is possible to save a whole Australian I.T. house from a water soaked landslip by observing why and where structures are placed before planning is asked to approve build. Most of these features as Osbourne would have been made for necessity or convenience but based on some local knowledge. Mendip is covered in Triassic classified wadi slip and wash which has well and spring information. Thank you for the reminder, Osbourne House has many such facility features and much of the Wight contains cliff and sand deposits essential to understanding Geology.