BGS Geoheritage – images from the collections: grindstones Armitage's Quarry

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Tuesday, 25 June 2013

Making grindstones, Messrs. Armitage's Quarry, Normanton

Messrs. Armitage's Quarry, Normanton. Looking NE. Middle Coal Measures. Grindstone constructed from Woolley Edge Rock.

BGS image ID: P206950

Messrs. Armitage's Quarry, Normanton, Yorkshire. Looking NE. Middle Coal Measures. Grindstone constructed from Woolley Edge Rock, a massive Coal Measure sandstone.

BGS old photograph number A07025. Date taken: 1936

Bob McIntosh