The Significance And Social Impact Of Quarrying In Shropshire In The 19th And 20th Centuries
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The Significance And Social Impact Of Quarrying In Shropshire In The 19th And 20th Centuries
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Author : Robert S. Galloway
language : en
Publisher: Cambridge Scholars Publishing
Release Date : 2019-06-19
The Significance And Social Impact Of Quarrying In Shropshire In The 19th And 20th Centuries written by Robert S. Galloway and has been published by Cambridge Scholars Publishing this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 2019-06-19 with History categories.
Quarrying is one of the oldest industries known to man, as, from early times, people have been making items from stone. However, the quarrying industry is only briefly mentioned in most archaeological and historical records, with some books only giving a passing account of this activity. This book alters this and provides an in-depth analysis of this important industry, not only with regards to Shropshire, but the whole country. Many structures in Shropshire and various parts of the country are constructed from stone quarried from this large county. This book shows that quarries are not just holes or scars on the landscape, highlighting the machinery used in extracting and processing the quarried minerals.
An Assessment Of The Significance And Social Impact Of The Quarrying Industry In Shropshire In The 19th And 20th Centuries
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Author : Robert Galloway
language : en
Publisher:
Release Date : 2018
An Assessment Of The Significance And Social Impact Of The Quarrying Industry In Shropshire In The 19th And 20th Centuries written by Robert Galloway and has been published by this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 2018 with categories.
An Assessment Of The Significance And Social Impact Of The Quarrying Industry In Shropshire In The 19th And 20th Centuries
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Author : Robert Samuel Galloway
language : en
Publisher:
Release Date : 2017
An Assessment Of The Significance And Social Impact Of The Quarrying Industry In Shropshire In The 19th And 20th Centuries written by Robert Samuel Galloway and has been published by this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 2017 with Quarries and quarrying categories.
This thesis investigates the technological innovations associated with the quarrying industry of Shropshire during the 19th and 20th centuries, from the extraction of rough-cut limestone, to greywacke used as road stone, sandstone flags found in vernacular buildings and finally to dimension stone. Examples of the minerals can be found in Shropshire, so such a breath of geology has made this county unique. Knowledge of geology and minerals is united in the quarrying industry. The inaccessibility and remote location of the raw materials has made the quarrying industry different from and other. The many methods of transport are also traced up to the 20th century. Access from remote locations to villages, towns and cities was very difficult. Britain's 18th century roads were made in form of causeways, constructed of stone and rubble, so narrow that only one horse-drawn cart could pass at a time. Eventually a network of roads spread across the country, enabling local and national economics to flourish. The quarrying industry, associated firstly with agriculture, rose to the ever-increasing needs of the industrial revolution by moving from manpower to machinery driven by stream.
Land Power And Prestige
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Author : David Thomas Yates
language : en
Publisher: Oxbow Books Limited
Release Date : 2007
Land Power And Prestige written by David Thomas Yates and has been published by Oxbow Books Limited this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 2007 with History categories.
A major phase of economic expansion occurred in southern England during the second and early first millennium BC, accompanied by a fundamental shift in regional power and wealth towards the eastern lowlands. This book offers a synthesis of available data on Bronze Age lowland field systems in England, including a gazetteer of sites. The research demonstrates the importance of large-scale animal husbandry in the mixed farming regimes as evidenced in the design of the field systems which incorporate droveways, stock proof fencing, watering holes, cow pens, sheep races and gateways for stockhandling. It is argued that the field systems represented a form of conspicuous production, an "intensification" of agrarian endeavour or a statement of intent, to be understood in relation to the maintenance, display and promotion of hierarchical social systems involved in exchange with their counterparts across the English Channel.
Basalt Quarrying On The Clee Hills Shropshire
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Author : Bernard O'Connor
language : en
Publisher:
Release Date : 2023-01-14
Basalt Quarrying On The Clee Hills Shropshire written by Bernard O'Connor and has been published by this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 2023-01-14 with categories.
Thomas Telford, the Scottish road and bridge builder, knew enough about rocks to recommend that particularly hard basalt, locally known as dhu stone, which was found on the top of the Clee Hills in Shropshire would make a hard wearing and long lasting road material. The problem was extracting and transporting it. Railway engineers on the Shrewsbury to Ludlow railway successfully found investors and formed the Dhu Stone Quarry Company to construct a railway from Ludlow to Bitterley, a village just below Titterstone Clee. Geological surveys were undertaken and by 1867 an agreement had been signed with the landowner to open a quarry, labourers were employed to dig out the basalt and cut it into cobbles, the blocks used to pave roads, pavements, tramways, pedestrian areas, station forecourts, docks, wharves etc. An incline railway was constructed from Clee Hill on which trucks laden with stone were lowered to a goods yard at Bitterley and then transferred to the mainline to be sold in most metropolitan cities across England and Wales. Such were the profits to be made that, over the following decades, the Clee Hill Granite Company, was set up to exploit the basalt on the top of Titterstone Clee and Magpie Hill. A second incline and an aerial ropeway, the first of its kind, were constructed. The Cleobury Mortimer and Ditton Priors railway on the eastern side to the Clee Hills was needed to exploit the basalt on the Brown Clee so the Abdon Clee and Clee Burf Quarry Companies were established and a third incline installed. In the early 20th century massive reinforced concrete structures were erected on the hills to support the stone crushing equipment and concrete and asphalt works started in Ditton Priors. Thousands of men were employed, many migrating to the Clee Hills from other parts of Britain. Houses, pubs, shops, churches and chapels were built, roads improved and services like water, sewage and electricity followed. Victorian engineers, entrepreneurs and landowners helped stimulate the local economy in ways never seen before. Bernard O'Connor's 'Basalt Quarrying on the Clee Hills' is a documentary history using contemporary sources, documents, maps, photographs, newspaper articles, geological papers, local histories and websites to provide a fascinating account of the geological, social, economic, archaeological and environmental impact of this industry in southeast Shropshire.