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Hambly was a "rockman" at Long Grass Quarry- one of the workers suspended by rope against the rock face. On 20 December 1893, Hambly led a party of four men in the rescue of eleven crew from the Italian barque, Iota. The ship had struck a nearby pinnacle known as Lye Rock. Coastguards scaled Lye Rock and Hambly was lowered down the rock face on ...
Cottonshope Head Quarry is a Site of Special Scientific Interest [1] [2] within Northumberland National Park, Northumberland, England. It is located north of the hamlet of Cottonshopeburnfoot . The site is an abandoned quarry within a military training area.
The quarry was auctioned in 1874, and the New Rhosydd Slate Quarry Company Ltd. was formed. Unlike its predecessor, the directors were all Welsh, and three-quarters of the shareholders were also from the local area. The quarry prospered for a while, but then profitability declined, and in 1900, a large section of the underground workings collapsed.
In 1974 the abandoned Middle Quarry was re-opened, producing architectural slab, and as an attraction to the public - the Gloddfa Ganol Mountain Center. The centre offered guided tours of several miles of underground tunnels and chambers and was based in the old Middle Mill, which had been rebuilt for the purpose.
An abandoned 16,000-square-foot mansion in the English countryside is on sale for $500,000 - take a look inside the eerie home emcdowell@businessinsider.com (Erin McDowell) September 18, 2020 at 4 ...
The chalk pit was abandoned in 1999, although chalk is occasionally extracted for local use. The quarry remains the property of the Cowdray Estate, who manage it as part of their pheasant shooting. The estate has 18 drives on 3,500 acres at Cocking, with the chalk pit being described as the estate's "signature drive".
Harpur Hill Quarry is a disused limestone quarry on Harpur Hill, Derbyshire, England. Limestone was extracted there from 1835 to 1952 for lime burning at lime kilns to produce quicklime . The quarry was used by the Royal Air Force (as part of RAF Harpur Hill ) as a chemical weapons storage depot during the Second World War , the largest such ...
The River Don valley, in which the settlement was situated, was a site given to limestone formations which lent themselves to early mining for building purposes. [5] The area in which Levitt Hagg is located was known as Conisbrough Cliffs and was composed of two quarries: Near Cliff, which had been exhausted by 1791; and "Far Cliff" which included the long-gone early industrial hamlet of ...