Slate Quarrying
Slate quarry remains on Castle Crag in Borrowdale, the Lake District, Cumbria.
The 'Slate Graveyard' at the old old slate quarry on Castle Crag in Borrowdale, the Lake District, Cumbria.
Millican Dalton's Cave, Castle Crag in Borrowdale, the Lake District, Cumbria.
Born in Alston in 1867, Millican Dalton was a self-styled "Professor of Adventure". Moving from Cumberland to Essex, Dalton worked as an insurance clerk in London, but at the age of 36, he chose a different lifestyle, living in a wooden shed during the winter months and in this quarry workings cave in Borrowdale during the summer months. He called it, "The Cave Hotel" and offered adventure holidays and climbing instruction from it which provided a small income. He survived in the cave for almost 50 summers.
The cave consists of an upper and lower chamber and the words: "Don't Waste Words, Jump to Conclusions" are carved on the wall of his upper bed chamber.
Old boilers, Elterwater Green Slate Quarry in Great Langdale, the Lake District, Cumbria, UK
Steel Rigg Slate Quarry on the slopes of Rainsborrow Crag in the Kentmere Valley, Cumbria.
Steel Rigg Slate Quarry on the slopes of Rainsborrow Crag in the Kentmere Valley, Cumbria.
Aerial view of Kirkstone Quarries, Kirkstone Pass near Ambleside in the Lake District, Cumbria.
A green slate quarry operational since 1949.
Photo taken from a hot air balloon.
Derelict buildings, Kirkstone Quarries, Kirkstone Pass, Cumbria.
The quarry was operational from 1949 to 2012.
Slater Bridge spanning the River Brathay in Little Langdale, the Lake District, Cumbria.
A 17th century two section packhorse bridge connecting the hamlet of Little Langdale with the Tilberthwaite slate quarries.
A selfie in Cathedral Quarry, Little Langdale in the Lake District, Cumbria.
The Cathedral is a huge awe-inspiring mining excavation with a dramatic central pillar. This slate quarry features in the 2012 film, ‘Snow White and the Huntsman’.
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Industrial Lakeland. A Case F-series wheel loader with a backdrop of the Langdale Pikes, Elterwater in Great Langdale, Cumbria, UK.
Lakeland's industrial heritage: Old buildings from Burlington Slate Quarries at Elterwater in Great Langdale, the Lake District, Cumbria.
Burlington have been quarrying here since 1841, and this is still a working quarry producing prestigious green slate products. The company is now known as Burlington Stone.
Rydal Cave, an old slate quarry worked for Tilberthwaite Tuffs on the lower slopes of Loughrigg Fell in the Lake District.
Rydal Cave on the lower slopes of Loughrigg Fell in the Lake District, Cumbria.
An old slate quarry penetrating about 45m into the fellside. It was worked for the Tilberthwaite Tuffs, a good roofing slate until the 1920s.
Honister green slate plaque at Seatoller, Borrowdale in the Lake District, Cumbria.
The former Kirkstone Quarries Slate Works at Skelwith Bridge, Cumbria.
The former Kirkstone Quarries Slate Works at Skelwith Bridge, Cumbria.
Aerial view of the spoilheaps from the disused Tilberthwaite slate quarries and a working quarry 2015. Lake District, Cumbria.
Photo taken from a hot-air balloon.
Hodge Close Quarry, one of many slate workings in the Tilberthwaite Valley, between Langdale and Coniston in the Lake District, Cumbria.
Hodge Close was operational from the 19th century to the early 1960s. The 100 metre open pit was flooded to a depth of 50 metres to prevent easy access into the lower chambers. The waters and walls now present a popular challenge for experienced divers and climbers.