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Tuesday, 19 November 2019

Silhouette in stone quarry

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Another photo in underground stone quarry chamber. I look a bit like Quasimodo here with the backpack. . Lots of rocks on floor, from ceiling of chamber I guess, but don't know if they fell after closure or was deliberate during operations - Victorian quarries look chaotic in old photos I have seen (all outdoor I think, lighting large chambers for underground photos would have been difficult I suppose), with rock everywhere rickety wooden walkways, and very dangerouse practices (undermining rock to make it fall by crawling under it and hacking away 😕), but bare sandy floor visible in places. . The chambers are several metres tall so fallen boulders don't block much unless they are near passages connecting to other chambers or openings to the outside; probably hurt a bit if they fell on you though. 🤕 ⚰️ . #silhouette #dark #abandonedmine #bradford #baildon #baildongreen #stonequarry #quarry #sandstone #mineexploration #victorianquarry #yorkstone #baildonbank #baildongreenquarries

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