A preserved Ruston Bucyrus 10RB face shovel used for loading sand into railway wagons at Stonehenge Works on the Leighton Buzzard Narrow Gauge Railway .
The V2 Incline Railway. Slates were loaded onto a wagon at the top of the incline and, as gravity pushed the full wagon down, the empty wagon would be pulled to the top on a parallel track ready for the process to be repeated. Restored in 1998 this is the only such incline working in Britain today.
Hodge Close Quarry, near Coniston, Cumbria, England. The slate quarry was worked until the 1960's, but is now flooded to a depth of over 100 feet. There are several tunnels running off the quarry underwater. These are very popular with divers, despite the fact that several divers have died at the site. The quarry is surrounded by walls of green slate, and are popular with abseilers. A blue buoy marks the spot where a transit van lies on the floor of the quarry.
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Low Water and Levers Water beyond it, two tarns seen from the summit of The Old man of Coniston, a 2633 foot high fell, and one of the 214 wainwrights in The Lake District of Cumbria, England.
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Old equipment,signs and general bits and pieces laying inthe corner of the foundry at Gilfach Ddu; this is part of the quarry workshops that once served Dinorwig Quarry but now forms the Welsh Slate Museum, Llanberis.
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Hodge Close Quarry at Tilberthwaite, Cumbria, England, where green slate is still quarried. Image scanned from medium format film. Bronica ETR and Velvia 50.
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The flooded workings at Hodge Close Slate Quarry, in the Tilberthwaite Valley, near Coniston, Cumbria, England. The water reaches a depth of over 150 feet the same height as the cliffs surrounding it.
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A stone quarry on the Isle of Portland in Dorset, England. Portland Stone is a famous building material used across the British Isles and abroad, often in major public buildings in London and elsewhere. The stone is an oolitic limestone from the Tithonian stage of the Jurassic period and the quarries consist of beds of white-grey limestone separated by chert beds.
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A stone quarry on the Isle of Portland in Dorset, England. Portland Stone is a famous building material used across the British Isles and abroad, often in major public buildings in London and elsewhere. The stone is an oolitic limestone from the Tithonian stage of the Jurassic period and the quarries consist of beds of white-grey limestone separated by chert beds.
Construction; Digger; Excavator; 3 Tonne Digger; Construction Work; Bridal Way Work; Tracked Construction Vehicle; Out Side; Hydrological Excavator; conservation Work;
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This scene of a mechanical digger creating a new bridal way was captured on a misty weekend afternoon.