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  • Thumbnail for Johnny Dawes
    2011. ISBN 978-0957030800. Documentary on The Quarryman (E8 7a): Hart, Neil (director) (2019). The Quarrymen (Motion picture). Documentary on The Indian...
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  • Ken Brown (musician) (category The Quarrymen members)
    Brown (20 August 1940 – c. 9 June 2010) was a British guitarist with The Quarrymen, a precursor to The Beatles. Brown was born in Enfield, Middlesex in August...
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  • novel by T. Rowland Hughes, written in 1944. It tells of the story of a quarryman in Gwynedd who decides to leave his community to look for work in the...
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    split the rock into workable blocks, the quarrymen mined the stone horizontally out of the cliff face. The quarrymen were also skilled stonemasons. They worked...
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    gwyllt ("wild car"; plural: ceir gwyllt) is a Welsh invention used by quarrymen to ride downhill on the steep inclined planes of a slate quarry. Most...
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    environmental sculpture in Saugerties, New York, created by sculptor and quarryman Harvey Fite (1903—1976). It comprises a sprawling series of dry-stone...
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  • Thumbnail for Slate industry in Wales
    of the 18th century, slate was extracted on a small scale by groups of quarrymen who paid a royalty to the landlord, carted slate to the ports, and then...
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    Thomas (R. T.) Jones (14 October 1874 – 15 December 1940) was a Welsh quarryman, trade unionist and Labour Party politician. Born in Blaenau Ffestiniog...
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    beach can be accessed from Trebarwith at low tide or by a zigzagging quarryman's track from the village of Treknow. The beach is sandy and the water is...
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    where there were at least 22 quarrymen working by 1858. Among them was Charles Saunders, licensee of the hotel 'The Quarryman's Arms' who became Pyrmont's...
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  • Tuesday 13 Feb 1896 • Killed at Vaynor Quarry. Inquest held on body of quarryman aged 58 who succumbed to injuries received at quarry. Evening Express...
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  • roll. Authenticity and approval are boosted by the presence of original Quarryman Colin Hanton as second drummer... Clarke’s vocals do the business on songs...
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  • Thumbnail for Pantdreiniog quarry
    to have started around 1825, and was certainly working in 1845, when quarryman John Hughes of Maentwrog fell to his death into the pit, which was then...
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  • although three died in childhood. John Husler came from a family of quarrymen and stone masons. Quarrying quickly became a major industry as a result...
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  • Thumbnail for Dinorwic quarry
    well-known extreme test-pieces such as the traditional climbing route The Quarryman (E8 7a) in the Twll Mawr section, and the sport climbing route The Very...
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    stone quarries in the area. Watson became fascinated by the masons and quarrymen she saw working the local Purbeck stone with traditional tools and decided...
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    (weaver from Burnley), Thomas Taylor (tackler) and Jonathan Duerden (quarryman). The proposed capital was £5000-0-0 in 500 shares of £10-0-0, and the...
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    Rammelsbach, long-term jobs could not be created in great numbers. The local “quarryman” stereotype now belongs to the past as more and more villagers must commute...
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  • Thumbnail for Conglog quarry
    provided the working capital to enable quarrying to begin. Williams was a quarryman. The take-note acted as temporary permission for the two men to extract...
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