Earthwatcher's photos with the keyword: grindstone

This is the track which leads down from the Hathersage Road to the Bole Hill quarries, adjacent to Lawrence Field in the Peak District National Park, near Hathersage. The track was used to bring materials, including steam locomotives, to the upper parts of the quarries, which were active in the early years of the 20th century. This photo is looking up towards the Hathersage Road near Surprise View Corner. There may have been a railway laid on this portion, or else materials were brought in this way by steam traction engine to the quarry, where there was definitely a network of quarry railway lines with locomotives hauling stone wagons to the top of the Padley Incline. The quarries were worked on a major industrial scale to provide stone for the construction of the Ladybower, Derwent and Howden dams. The quarries were also worked for grindstones and pulp stones. Immediately adjacent to this locality are the dozens of pulp stones (some visible in this photo), originally destined for a Swedish paper mill, but left abandoned here before they could be shipped out due to the outbreak of WW2 in 1939. More information here: www.wishful-thinking.org.uk/genuki/DBY/Grindleford/BoleHi...

Abandoned pulp stones or grindstones next to the Bole Hill quarries track, at near Surprise View corner, near Hathersage. These stones were originally destined for a Swedish paper mill, but left abandoned here before they could be shipped out due to the outbreak of WW2 in 1939. The stones are made from the Chatsworth Grit in the 'Millstone Grit' (Namurian) group of the Upper Carboniferous. Here's the same view nearly 11 years earlier. Looks like there were a couple more stones then. Someone has probably made off with one or two in the meantime! www.ipernity.com/doc/earthwatcher/39021296

Abandoned pulp stones or grindstones next to the Bole Hill quarries track, at near Surprise View corner, near Hathersage. These stones were originally destined for a Swedish paper mill, but left abandoned here before they could be shipped out due to the outbreak of WW2 in 1939. The stones are made from the Chatsworth Grit in the 'Millstone Grit' (Namurian) group of the Upper Carboniferous.

Abandoned pulp stones or grindstones next to the Bole Hill quarries track, at near Surprise View corner, near Hathersage. These stones were originally destined for a Swedish paper mill, but left abandoned here before they could be shipped out due to the outbreak of WW2 in 1939. The stones are made from the Chatsworth Grit in the 'Millstone Grit' (Namurian) group of the Upper Carboniferous.

Grindstones near Millstone Edge quarries, awaiting transport out. These were destined for a Swedish paper mill, but were abandoned here in 1939 on the outbreak of war. This is much later than the abandonment date of most of the millstones in this area, probably over 100 years ago when the bottom dropped out of the millstone market, due to French imports and the manufacture of synthetic millstones. Surprise View corner, near Sheffield, South Yorkshire, England. Here is the same view (with slightly fewer stones!) nearly 11 years later. www.ipernity.com/doc/earthwatcher/39023490