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Using a Razzer (a knackered Frig Bob) to start off the cut at the top [4] https://geoscenic.bgs.ac.uk/asset-bank/action/viewAsset?id=114146&index=3&total=48&view=viewSearchItem

The quarryman has a frig bob, a carbide lamp, a bucket of water for lubricating the sawing. [7] https://geoscenic.bgs.ac.uk/asset-bank/action/viewAsset?id=114159&index=6&total=48&view=viewSearchItem

The quarryman is holding a saw handle, with an air pick - probably he had stitch drilled before sawing [8] https://geoscenic.bgs.ac.uk/asset-bank/action/viewAsset?id=114164&index=7&total=48&view=viewSearchItem

Two quarrymen, both using figbobs, a razzer is in the background, an air pick, a pick, and two carbide lamps [9] https://geoscenic.bgs.ac.uk/asset-bank/action/viewAsset?id=114168&index=8&total=48&view=viewSearchItem

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Sawyers

[1] Making a chog hole - with a small jadding pick? a carbide lamp, air pick are also visible https://geoscenic.bgs.ac.uk/asset-bank/action/viewAsset?id=114135&index=0&total=48&view=viewSearchItem

[2] Making a chog hole https://geoscenic.bgs.ac.uk/asset-bank/action/viewAsset?id=114139&index=1&total=48&view=viewSearchItem

[10] Making a chog hole with a small jadding pick?https://geoscenic.bgs.ac.uk/asset-bank/action/viewAsset?id=114172&index=9&total=48&view=viewSearchItem

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Making a chog hole for a post crane

Monks park crane lifting a stone block [17] https://geoscenic.bgs.ac.uk/asset-bank/action/viewAsset?id=114197&index=16&total=48&view=viewSearchItem

[35] https://geoscenic.bgs.ac.uk/asset-bank/action/viewAsset?id=114270&index=34&total=48&view=viewSearchItem

[36] https://geoscenic.bgs.ac.uk/asset-bank/action/viewAsset?id=114271&index=35&total=48&view=viewSearchItem

Another view of the lister-kaye designed crane [22] https://geoscenic.bgs.ac.uk/asset-bank/action/viewAsset?id=114216&index=21&total=48&view=viewSearchItem

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Monks park crane - designed by John Lister-Kaye from Bath & Portland

Greenbat (the electric loco) #1 https://www.sglr.co.uk/greenbat #2 https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Greenwood_%26_Batley #3 https://www.gracesguide.co.uk/Greenwood_and_Batley:_Locomotives [32] https://geoscenic.bgs.ac.uk/asset-bank/action/viewAsset?id=114255&index=31&total=48&view=viewSearchItem

[33] https://geoscenic.bgs.ac.uk/asset-bank/action/viewAsset?id=114260&index=32&total=48&view=viewSearchItem

[34] https://geoscenic.bgs.ac.uk/asset-bank/action/viewAsset?id=114265&index=33&total=48&view=viewSearchItem Working on Bath Stone near Corsham Wiltshire. Underground haulage lifting blocks with claw hooks. Folly Books - Stone loading at Monk's Park. This is one of the earliest photos showing the Bath & Portland Company's Greenwood & Batley electric locomotive underground.

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Monks park Quarry and Greenbat the electric loco

#1 www.sglr.co.uk/greenbat
#2 en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Greenwo...
#3 www.gracesguide.co.uk/Greenwood_an...

Ruston and stone crane outside clift quarry [39] https://geoscenic.bgs.ac.uk/asset-bank/action/viewAsset?id=114283&index=38&total=48&view=viewSearchItem

[40] Stone Block lifted from Quarry Trolley outside Clift Quarry https://geoscenic.bgs.ac.uk/asset-bank/action/viewAsset?id=114289&index=39&total=48&modal=true&view=viewSearchItem

The crane is not mounted on a wagon! [42] https://geoscenic.bgs.ac.uk/asset-bank/action/viewAsset?id=114296&index=41&total=48&view=viewSearchItem

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The Stothert & Pitt stacking yard crane in use

Crane 57 - but in fixed position rather than mounted on a rail wagon?
www.boxpeopleandplaces.co.uk/crane-57.html