| P number: | P000142 |
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| Old photograph number: | C03771 |
| Caption: | Corrennie Quarry, Tillyfourie. Aberdeenshire. General view. Pink quartz-rich granite with subordinate bands of grey quartz-diorite. |
| Description: | Corrennie Quarry, Tillyfourie. Aberdeenshire. General view. Pink quartz-rich granite with subordinate bands of grey quartz-diorite. The quarry floor, some 76 metres deep show a single sett-maker's hut in front of a light railway with a bogie. A crane jib projects out from the right. Two different coloured granites were worked in Corrennie Quarry, grey granite for crushed stone and pink for building, ornamental and monumental purposes. |
| Date taken: | Thu Jun 01 00:00:00 BST 1939 |
| Photographer: | Fisher, W.D. |
| Copyright statement: | Crown |
| Acknowledgment: | This image was digitized with grant-in-aid from SCRAN the Scottish Cultural Resources Access Network |
| Orientation: | Landscape |
| Size: | 293.76 KB; 1000 x 717 pixels; 85 x 61 mm (print at 300 DPI); 265 x 190 mm (screen at 96 DPI); |
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| Categories: | Unsorted Images |
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