I know of three people who have already taken delivery of this book and it
really is excellent value for money. There are a huge number of colour
photographs. If you want to see how many just look at
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=00aC-eYpR7U
which shows the whole book page by page. This is an excellent way to show
off the content of a book and I strongly encourage all book authors (where
there are photos anyway) to emulate this.
As Derek Hawkins worked in the industry for so long and has input also from
David Pollard another long time underground stone quarryman, the technical
side of underground stone quarrying is covered very expertly and in just
about the right level of detail. The number and variety of photos in this
book is superb.
A truly excellent book.
Highly recommended.
Roger
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The book has finally arrived and is an excellent publication with superb
photography - I am offering Post Free to SUB Brit
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the end of January at cost of £24.99
Details as follows
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Derek Hawkins, HB, 250mm x 250mm 224pp
Bath Stone Quarries is a comprehensive photographic record of the Bath
stone industry from the mid-Victorian period to the present day. Its scope
includes not just the surviving underground relics of the industry but also
the surface tramways, loading wharfs and cutting yards associated with it.
The book traces the history of the industry up until the start of the
Second World War, when many of the quarries were requisitioned for
government use. The early phases of the government conversion work is
covered, but the bigger wartime history of the quarries can be found in our
sister volume, Second World War Secret Bunkers. The story continues in the
immediate post-war years, when quarrying resumed in a small number of
quarries, while others were adapted for other peacetime uses. The new
quarrying techniques employed at Westwood, Monks Park and Limpley Stoke are
illustrated in some detail. Topics covered include: •The Combe Down and
Claverton Down mines including open quarries, underground workings and
associated tramways. The book covers their early history up to the recent
infilling. •Quarries and quarry tramways in the Avon Valley: Limpley Stoke,
Conkwell, Murhill, Westwood, and all the little-known underground workings
in Bradford-on-Avon. •All the quarries on Farleigh Down, including Brown's
Folly, Dapstone, Kingsdown, Longsplatt, etc along with the Farleigh Down
tramway and sidings and the Kingsdown yard. •Also covered, in some detail,
the Box Quarries, tramways and masons yards, with many stunning archive
images of Clift Quarry and other locations. •Spring Quarry, the largest of
all the Corsham quarries, is covered in great detail, as are Monks Park and
Ridge quarries. •Coverage is also given to the many smaller but still
important quarries in the Corsham area, including Brewers Yard, Hollybush,
Sands, Copenacre, Goodes Hill, Eastlays, Elm Park etc. Derek Hawkins has
spent his entire working life in the Bath and Corsham stone quarries. He
began as a quarryman in Limpley Stoke Quarry in the early 1980s. Then he
became Mine Manager at Monkton Farleigh Mine when it was open to the
public. For the last twenty years he has been Quarry Safety Manager working
for the MoD in Corsham. Derek has been exploring the abandoned Bath stone
quarries since his early teens. He is a passionate photographer and has
accumulated a vast library of images of the quarries, many of the best of
which are included in this book. Derek also lectures on the subject of the
underground stone quarries of Bath and North Wiltshire.
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