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20/6/2014

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We went past Jamestone Quarry on 26 May 2014 whilst on a walk in Rossendale.

Quarrying for stone first began here in 1798 when men were digging for stone in a field called Stone Pitts pasture which belonged to Dicken Height Farm.  

Stone was initially extracted for local use but with the coming of the industrial revolution production increased dramatically to satisfy the growing demands of textile mills, housing and agricultural stone walling. With the arrival of the railways into the area in 1846 quarrying here and in the area expanded significantly and for the next 60 years stone was extracted with whole hillsides dissappearing in order to provide stone for towns and cities across the country as well as for export abroad.

From the ports of Liverpool and London stone was sent by ship to India, the Far East and America. At the peak of production between 1860 and 1890 some 3000 people worked in the quarries.

By 1919 the demand for stone together with rising extraction prices resulted in the closure of many quarries in the area and the removal and scrapping of the mineral tramways which ran across the moors and linked the quarries with the main railway sidings.
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A closer view of the quarry wall, the stone in the area is hard sandstone with alternate layers of shale. The quarry itself has filled up with water.
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Moorland around the quarry, this would have been a very harsh place to work in the winter months.
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A dry stone wall heads up the hill and across the moors.
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Another view of the quarry looking roughly south.
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Remains of a building above the quarry.
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The remains of a wall running along the side of the path. The path rapidly  petered away just after we passed the ruined building and the ground became very wet and muddy, we turned back at this point.
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    My interest in ships and the sea started back in 2006 when I worked for a couple of years  on the banks of the River Mersey. I have since been on a couple of cruises around the Med and in the Far East and have started to take more interest in researching and photographing some of the ships and other vessels seen on my travels.

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