BGS photo - showing annotations #1 Quarry blocks (brown) scappled at the quarry; #2 Scants (yellowy-brown) with two smooth opposite faces; #3 and rectangular blocks (pink) with all smooth faces [2] https://bgs.assetbank.app/assetbank-bgs/action/viewAsset?id=113748

original BGS photo without annotations [2] https://bgs.assetbank.app/assetbank-bgs/action/viewAsset?id=113748

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Stage {1},{2}

varying thickness and smoothness of stone

This is beneath the larger overhead travelling crane ie where the quarry blocks were worked on

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Bath & Portland Stone Firms - West Wells Masonry Works Stage #2 processing scants to create rectangular blocks with no rough faces [12] https://bgs.assetbank.app/assetbank-bgs/action/viewAsset?id=113977

Bath & Portland Stone Firms - West Wells Masonry Works Stage #2 processing scants to create rectangular blocks with no rough faces [14] https://bgs.assetbank.app/assetbank-bgs/action/viewAsset?id=113987

Bath & Portland Stone Firms - West Wells Masonry Works Stage #2 processing scants to create rectangular blocks with no rough faces [21] https://bgs.assetbank.app/assetbank-bgs/action/viewAsset?id=114017

Bath & Portland Stone Firms - West Wells Masonry Works Stage #2 processing scants to create rectangular blocks with no rough faces [25] https://bgs.assetbank.app/assetbank-bgs/action/viewAsset?id=114033

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Stage {2}[2 - Twin saw]

creating rectangular stone blocks with no rough faces using twin bladed circular saws

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Computer controlled slabbing saw [32] https://bgs.assetbank.app/assetbank-bgs/action/viewAsset?id=114060

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Stage {1} [1 - Slabbing saw]
The first stage
#1 creating scants with a computer controlled slabbing saw

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#Pod_2 creating scants of a required thickness using a single bladed circular saw
Stage {1} [1 - Slabbing saw]

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The larger overhead travelling crane [36] https://bgs.assetbank.app/assetbank-bgs/action/viewAsset?id=114076

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Advert 1955 for a similar John Smith (Keighley) overhead travelling crane The foundry Trade Journal 1955 - sim_foundry-trade-journal_1955-04-28_98_2017 https://ia804506.us.archive.org/33/items/sim_foundry-trade-journal_1955-04-28_98_2017/sim_foundry-trade-journal_1955-04-28_98_2017.pdf

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The large overhead travelliing crane
Stage {1}, {2}

This area covers the first two phases of the processing the blocks from the quarry

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his map 1892-1915 shows the west wells quarry before the masonry works. Note the nearby spring quarry and sands quarry Kinnock's or Westwells or Moor Park quarry location shown by the blue placemark using the MCRA location data which marks the west wells slope shaft on a NLS old map 1892-1915 https://maps.nls.uk/geo/explore/#zoom=16.9&lat=51.41844&lon=-2.20976&layers=168&b=osm&o=99&marker=51.417890,-2.209690 DBS p310-312 i.e. section 8.9.14 #1 Kinnock’s quarry 1900 -> Westwells quarry -> Moor park quarry 1907

The location of the masonry works - or stone works. Much of the NLS 1944-1974 map is fictional but the outline of the masonry works buildings are shown . Westwalls quarry slope shaft would directly feed into the masonry works The MCRA location of the slope shaft is the blue placemark on an NLS old map 1944-74 which clarly shows the stone works https://maps.nls.uk/geo/explore/#zoom=16.9&lat=51.41839&lon=-2.21017&layers=173&b=osm&o=99&marker=51.417890,-2.209690

Bath & Portland Masonry works at West Wells - 70 men and Bottomcombe ~200 men Kenneth Hudson, 'Fashionable stone' p75

Norman Bezzant's description of the stone working process and machines used in different phases was used to classify the photos. #1 But then I noticed the large overhead travelling crane was useful in identifying the initial stages 1 & 2 #2 And the smaller overhead travelling crane identified where the masons worked, ie stages 3 & 4 my notes on these few pages makes it easy to see where the classification comes from https://docs.google.com/document/d/1BvJo-vIls-tWyB48lV_fh7My0B9861MtHEnXQlwoAq8/edit?usp=sharing

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Within the BGS photos are an awesome collection of photos of the Bath & Portland's Masonry Works at West Wells, in Corsham.
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