| P number: | P208867 |
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| Old photograph number: | A08945 |
| Caption: | Cleeve Bridge Quarry, Frenchay, Gloucestershire. |
| Description: | This quarry is one of several working the blue-grey Carboniferous Pennant Sandstone for building stone. Much of the stone production from the quarry was used in Bristol and its suburbs for housing and factories. The quarry is no longer in operation. The massive, hard, cross-bedded, Pennant Sandstone is being dressed by the masons into block stone, paving and curb stones principally for use in the local area. The Pennant Sandstone was the most important source of building sandstone in the Bristol, Forest of Dean and South Wales Coalfield areas. It occurs as massive beds of sandstone ranging from blue-grey to green-grey in colour, sometimes with noticeable iron stain along its joint planes. |
| Date taken: | Mon Aug 01 00:00:00 BST 1949 |
| Photographer: | Rhodes, J. |
| Copyright statement: | Crown |
| X longitude/easting: | 364500 |
| Y latitude/northing: | 177700 |
| Coordinate reference system, ESPG code: | 27700 (OSGB 1936 / British National Grid) |
| Orientation: | Landscape |
| Size: | 307.86 KB; 1000 x 713 pixels; 85 x 60 mm (print at 300 DPI); 265 x 189 mm (screen at 96 DPI); |
| Average Rating: | Not yet rated |
| Categories: | Unsorted Images, Geoscience subjects/ Economic geology/ Building stones |
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