Kemnay Quarries, a working granite quarry, 1939.

BGS Image ID: P000136

Kemnay Quarries. Aberdeenshire. General view of the mason's yard. Stockpiled finished stone in a variety of sizes all neatly labelled can be seen in front of the masons' sheds. A steam train is seen mounted on a light railway. In the distance is part of No. 2 Quarry with several blondins stretched across the quarry. The roofs of the sheds could open to allow the travelling steam crane to deposit stone inside for the masons to work on.

BGS Image ID: P000132

Broken granite blocks after blast. Three quarrymen working at splitting a large block, one is wielding a pneumatic drill while the other two are using large crowbars.

Date of photographs: 1939.

An earlier post on Kemnay can be viewed here

Posted by: Bob McIntosh

Kemnay Quarries. Aberdeenshire. Sett-makers working in their individual huts, locally called scathies.

BGS image ID: P000135

Kemnay Quarries. Aberdeenshire. Sett-makers working in their individual huts, locally called scathies. Two sett-makers hard at work. They work with hammer and chisel on roughly made sand-filled tables. Light railway lines can be seen in the foreground behind the finished granite setts.

Original BGS photograph number: C3759
Photographer: W.D. Fisher
Date of photograph 1939