1973 view, looking east, across Clockface Quarry, with crane and mechanical shovels working plateau top Midgley Grit of the Carboniferous Millstone Grit Series, Scammmonden, Calderdale, South Pennines, west of Halifax and Huddersfield, UK
A view of Clockface Quarry, Scammonden, South Pennines, west of Halifax and Huddersfield, in the summer of 1973. A 1989 Calderdale Council Planning Application concerning the then owners, Marshall's Mono of Southowram, Halifax, mentions the quarry's owner in 1970 as Albert Hoyle Ltd of Huddersfield. In 1974 Albert Hoyle Ltd went into liquidation and the quarry was taken over by Marshall's, who extended the quarry towards the north in February 1980 and transported the rock from the quarry for crushing, at their Southowram works, into aggregate for their various concrete products. In 1973 Albert Hoyle Ltd was a smaller concern. The rock being worked is the Midgley Grit (also known as the Pule Hill Grit) of the Carboniferous Millstone Grit Series. A number of excellent plant fossils werre to be seen in the rocks being worked in 1973. In recent years the quarry has been a landfill site, operated by Casey Enviro Ltd of Rochdale. The quarrying operations, on a plateau 320 metres above sea-level, were inconspicuous from the neighbouring B6114 Saddleworth Road (background view). A view looking east across the quarry. The M62 cuts through the plateau behind the camera.
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Location: Clockface Quarry, Scammonden, Barkisland, South Pennines, Calderdale, West Yorkshire, UK
Photo credit: © robert harrison / Alamy / Afripics
License: Licensed
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