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sinnerman
01-11-2008, 10:49 AM
Kingsdown Quarry also commonly known as Swan Mine is a small bath stone quarry lying under the hillside along the road from Bathford to Kingsdown. The Main entrance to the quarry is opposite the Swan Inn which was once the Quarry managers house, the inn its self is held to the hill side by great iron chains anchored ito the buried workings of the quarry itself. Kingsdown Quarry was producing stone as far back as 1833 when it featured in a geological survey of the area. Kingsdown was never modernised it was never fitted with a rail system all the stone it produced was hauled out by pit pony's hauling wooden carts. Deeply ridged cart tracks can still been seen in many of the quarry's tunnels and places the horses hoof prints can still be seen. Throughout the quarry are remains of quarryman's tools, a stone carved horses water trough and at the end of one of the most remote tunnel stands a intact crane though it is unstable condition.

http://www.forlornbritain.co.uk/images/28/swan/sq01.jpg

http://www.forlornbritain.co.uk/images/28/swan/sq02.jpg

http://www.forlornbritain.co.uk/images/28/swan/sq03.jpg

http://www.forlornbritain.co.uk/images/28/swan/sq04.jpg

http://www.forlornbritain.co.uk/images/28/swan/sq05.jpg

http://www.forlornbritain.co.uk/images/28/swan/sq06.jpg

http://www.forlornbritain.co.uk/images/28/swan/sq07.jpg

http://www.forlornbritain.co.uk/images/28/swan/sq08.jpg

http://www.forlornbritain.co.uk/images/28/swan/sq09.jpg

http://www.forlornbritain.co.uk/images/28/swan/sq10.jpg

More at my website:
http://www.forlornbritain.co.uk/kings.php

Parkus.
01-11-2008, 12:50 PM
good stuff :thumb


what's the drawing / diagram of?

sinnerman
01-11-2008, 02:52 PM
I think its supposed to be a train.

S8
01-11-2008, 05:20 PM
I was meant to see this over the summer..

ERNIE99_UK
02-11-2008, 12:12 PM
Very nice:thumb. Looks like a time capsule!