Not the sort of thing I normally post on here, but with this quarry being relatively nearby and the fact I have a keen interest in local history I thought what the hell.
This now abandoned quarry at Brotherton was originally worked by the Haxby family, as well as quarries they also owned nearby lime kilns. The companies account books showed that the limestone from this site was shipped to several Yorkshire locations for various uses, such as a flux for melting other minerals; as lime for the manufacture of soap, tanning and dyeing; in agriculture for treating acidic moor land soils; as a road foundation; as a building material for mortar, cement and plaster.
Its production in this area also helped the economic viability of other industries for example the slack coal used to make lime from limestone enabled small collieries to exist and coal carrying waterways also carried limestone and burnt lime.
Limestone is still used for road making, in cement manufacture, in glassmaking, as a flux in smelting and for agricultural purposes. The Haxby quarries in this area closed in 1829 when the company went bankrupt, however this site along with many continued to be worked by numerous owners until this quarry closed around a decade ago, bringing to an end at least 200 years of quarrying on this site.
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This now abandoned quarry at Brotherton was originally worked by the Haxby family, as well as quarries they also owned nearby lime kilns. The companies account books showed that the limestone from this site was shipped to several Yorkshire locations for various uses, such as a flux for melting other minerals; as lime for the manufacture of soap, tanning and dyeing; in agriculture for treating acidic moor land soils; as a road foundation; as a building material for mortar, cement and plaster.
Its production in this area also helped the economic viability of other industries for example the slack coal used to make lime from limestone enabled small collieries to exist and coal carrying waterways also carried limestone and burnt lime.
Limestone is still used for road making, in cement manufacture, in glassmaking, as a flux in smelting and for agricultural purposes. The Haxby quarries in this area closed in 1829 when the company went bankrupt, however this site along with many continued to be worked by numerous owners until this quarry closed around a decade ago, bringing to an end at least 200 years of quarrying on this site.
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