EPW008947 ENGLAND (1923). Huncote Quarry, Huncote, 1923

Thanks for all the pins and extra info. We'll update the catalogue with the location data and post the new record here in due course.



Yours, Katy

Britain from Above Cataloguing Team Leader

There are also some of pictures at



http://www.bing.com/maps/?v=2&cp=52.563599~-1.239553&lvl=15&dir=0&sty=h&...



... and a link to some text - The Stone Quarry - that outlines some of the history.

http://www.bing.com/maps/?v=2&cp=52.563599~-1.239553&lvl=15&dir=0&sty=h&form=LMLTSN



This may bring up the modern Bing Map image.



If not search with Huncote or Croft

Much of what we see in this picture, looking toward the south west, is now a very large hole in the ground.



The road from the bottom edge of the picture is Croft Hill Road, that becomes Stanton Lane in the background. Today the area to the left of the these roads, between the main part of the quarry seen here and the almost to the trees at the upper left hand side of the picture is a very deep pit. The surrounding field boundaries are still unaltered enough to calibrate the scale of the operation and the several of the isolated buildings seen here confirm the positions, although there has been some building development.



The locomotive steam or smoke in the back ground, that pin points the railway, is to the east of the scene depicted in EPW008734. The bridge in the front of that view being the next one to the west after the skew bridge carrying Stanton Lane over the railway just out of view at the top of this picture.



2013 aerial images suggest that the area in front of the main quarry in the 1923 image has been reinstated and that sound evidence for the route of the narrow gauge railway has been lost on the ground.



This much bigger modern quarry has a rail connection at the point closest to the line as it curves slightly to the north off the straight section seen in EPW008734, and is clear an active source of rail traffic, the capacity of the rail vehicles seen in the view being nearly tens times those seen in the the various views of the area in the 1920s

The quarry and tramways are almost exactly as shown in the photograph on the 1916 1:2500 OS map.

View is looking south west.

Eureka

I am almost certain that I can identify this one.

I have been researching on the British Geological Survey and the Industrial Railway Society websites in order to try to locate this picture. Fascinating websites but I still can't identify the location!