EAW000935 ENGLAND (1946). The Breedon Lime Works and environs, Breedon on the Hill, 1946

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Details

Title [EAW000935] The Breedon Lime Works and environs, Breedon on the Hill, 1946
Reference EAW000935
Date 29-May-1946
Link
Place name BREEDON ON THE HILL
Parish BREEDON ON THE HILL
District
Country ENGLAND
Easting / Northing 440580, 323070
Longitude / Latitude -1.3979952813685, 52.803325306339
National Grid Reference SK406231

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Chimney suggests farm may have been steam powered

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Saturday 31st of August 2013 05:14:49 PM

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Saturday 31st of August 2013 05:14:13 PM
Possibly stacks of bricks

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Saturday 31st of August 2013 05:13:26 PM
Railway still in place by old limekiln

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Saturday 31st of August 2013 05:12:06 PM
Parish church and its churchyard will - I assume! - restrict quarry development

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Saturday 31st of August 2013 05:11:04 PM
Lightweight narrow-gauge railway track can easily be re-laid as the quarry face develops

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Saturday 31st of August 2013 05:09:53 PM
Tippler trucks hauled by horses in the quarry to the foot of the inclined plane

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Saturday 31st of August 2013 05:08:57 PM
Quarry crusher plant - I assume

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Saturday 31st of August 2013 05:07:46 PM
Narrow-gauge railway on inclined plane, partly on trestle

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Saturday 31st of August 2013 05:07:14 PM

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Saturday 31st of August 2013 05:06:38 PM

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Saturday 31st of August 2013 05:06:09 PM