Brewers Yard Quarry Corsham
Plundered by Toad & Myself
Located virtually underneath JSU Corsham
Not seen this on 28DL yet so here goes! Enjoy
A very unique former Bath stone quarry, the quarry is small in size but has some interesting features. The quarry comprises of two levels which are connected by a stone staircase and a vertical shaft connecting both levels with the surface. There are many blocks of Ashlar which were stacked up but never moved to the surface.
A very steep and narrow slope shaft leads down in to the upper layer of the quarry. Once inside there is a narrow stone staircase which leads down in to the lower level of the quarry.
In the lower level many sawn blocks of Ashlar are stacked up but were never removed, this was possibly due to a collapse at a smaller shaft in the centre of the mine preventing the removal of the stone.
A shaft has been sunk from the surface down through both levels of the quarry, this would have been used to remove stone from both levels up to the surface. The shaft is now capped.
Entrance slopeshaft
Upper level workings
Toad stood on 100 years of crap tossed down the main shaft
Cracking 40'S perambulator
Narrow steps leading to the arch and lower level
The arch
Cut stone ready to be hauled out
Squeeze thru collapse into lower workings
Quarrymans scrawlings
More..
And again.
Well earned rest at end of lower workings
Looking back over a fall, lower workings
Plundered by Toad & Myself
Located virtually underneath JSU Corsham
Not seen this on 28DL yet so here goes! Enjoy
A very unique former Bath stone quarry, the quarry is small in size but has some interesting features. The quarry comprises of two levels which are connected by a stone staircase and a vertical shaft connecting both levels with the surface. There are many blocks of Ashlar which were stacked up but never moved to the surface.
A very steep and narrow slope shaft leads down in to the upper layer of the quarry. Once inside there is a narrow stone staircase which leads down in to the lower level of the quarry.
In the lower level many sawn blocks of Ashlar are stacked up but were never removed, this was possibly due to a collapse at a smaller shaft in the centre of the mine preventing the removal of the stone.
A shaft has been sunk from the surface down through both levels of the quarry, this would have been used to remove stone from both levels up to the surface. The shaft is now capped.
Entrance slopeshaft
Upper level workings
Toad stood on 100 years of crap tossed down the main shaft
Cracking 40'S perambulator
Narrow steps leading to the arch and lower level
The arch
Cut stone ready to be hauled out
Squeeze thru collapse into lower workings
Quarrymans scrawlings
More..
And again.
Well earned rest at end of lower workings
Looking back over a fall, lower workings
