EPW026596 ENGLAND (1929). Tuthill Quarry, Haswell, 1929

This picture is one of a sequence taken in East Durham during the spring of 1929 and shows the limestone quarry near Haswell at approximately its greatest extent. A small quarry was indicated on maps dated 1856-65, at the northern limit of the area shown here. The extent of the workings increased over a 60-year period, with the thin glacial drift overburden removed to reveal the strata in the Middle Magnesian Limestone Group (Ford Formation). Most of the active removal of the limestone rock had ended by the 1960s, when contemporary plans show that the quarry was disused, so there must have been almost a century of extraction on site. Part of the old quarry has been infilled using waste coal from Easington Colliery and the location has since become a Site of Special Scientific Interest.