| P number: | P205034 |
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| Old photograph number: | A05100 |
| Caption: | Turner's Quarry, Anston, Yorkshire. Looking north. |
| Description: | The pale yellow, bioclastic, dolomitic limestones (or magnesian limestones) from the Anston area have been used extensively for local building. The transport and use of the stone outside the local area was boosted by the opening of the Chesterfield Canal in the late 18th century. which allowed the stone to compete in markets as far away as London. The beds of limestone in this working face show the vertical marks where the 'plug and feathers' iron wedges have been used to break out the limestone from its bed into manageable blocks. The large iron bars are the jumper bars used to percussively 'drill' a line of holes into the relatively soft limestone prior to the insertion of the iron wedges used to fracture the rock. Anston Stone was selected for use as the principal freestone in the construction of the Palace of Westminster (new Houses of Parliament 1839-52) buildings in London. It was transported from the quarries first by barge along the Chesterfield Canal and then by small boat via the Humber estuary and North Sea, to a quayside on the Thames embankment close to the building. |
| Date taken: | 01/08/1930 |
| Photographer: | Rhodes, J. |
| Copyright statement: | Crown |
| X longitude/easting: | 452500 |
| Y latitude/northing: | 383500 |
| Coordinate reference system, ESPG code: | 27700 (OSGB 1936 / British National Grid) |
| Orientation: | Landscape |
| Size: | 391.82 KB; 1001 x 719 pixels; 85 x 61 mm (print at 300 DPI); 265 x 190 mm (screen at 96 DPI); |
| Average Rating: | Not yet rated |
| Categories: | Unsorted Images, Geoscience subjects/ Economic geology/ Building stones |
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