HISTORY
Box is not one quarry, it is a series of several quarries that eventually all joined up. Some of the area's inside Box are still known by their original names. Cliftworks, Spring, Tunnel, copenacre, Jacks, Cathedral, Sands, Groundstone, Browns and Hudswell. Many of the eastern quarry's were taken over by the MOD and converted into ammunition storage and wartime government seats. Today, only the western parts of Box are officially accessible.
THE VISIT
This report basically covers the northern region of the mine, i.e. Clift Quarry. Visited with wonkycows.
1. Looking down the Cliftworks Passage from Clift Entrance
2. Elaborate (for a mine) stonework
3. Tank and Well, Cliftworks Passage
4. Support
5. Iron Door
6. Mine graffiti 1
7. Box Crane 1, Stack Passage
8. Heading further into Clift
9. Box Crab Winch, Winch Series
10. Box Crane 2 and saw, Bakerloo Line
11. Stone cutting
12. Bottom of the shaft, Cliftworks Passage
13. Mine graffiti 2
14. Junction with Box Crane 4 in the distance
15. Box Crane 5 and saws, Finis Laborandi
16. Last major junction
17. Box Crane 6, Via Ultima
18. End of the line, Box Crane 7, at the end of Via Ultima
And then a long walk back to BackDoor.
Thanks for looking.
Box is not one quarry, it is a series of several quarries that eventually all joined up. Some of the area's inside Box are still known by their original names. Cliftworks, Spring, Tunnel, copenacre, Jacks, Cathedral, Sands, Groundstone, Browns and Hudswell. Many of the eastern quarry's were taken over by the MOD and converted into ammunition storage and wartime government seats. Today, only the western parts of Box are officially accessible.
THE VISIT
This report basically covers the northern region of the mine, i.e. Clift Quarry. Visited with wonkycows.
1. Looking down the Cliftworks Passage from Clift Entrance
2. Elaborate (for a mine) stonework
3. Tank and Well, Cliftworks Passage
4. Support
5. Iron Door
6. Mine graffiti 1
7. Box Crane 1, Stack Passage
8. Heading further into Clift
9. Box Crab Winch, Winch Series
10. Box Crane 2 and saw, Bakerloo Line
11. Stone cutting
12. Bottom of the shaft, Cliftworks Passage
13. Mine graffiti 2
14. Junction with Box Crane 4 in the distance
15. Box Crane 5 and saws, Finis Laborandi
16. Last major junction
17. Box Crane 6, Via Ultima
18. End of the line, Box Crane 7, at the end of Via Ultima
And then a long walk back to BackDoor.
Thanks for looking.
