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THE IRONSTONE QUARRIES OF THE MIDLANDS: HISTORY, OPERATION AND RAILWAYS PART IX LEICESTERSHIRE

Written by Eric Tonks
Published by Runpast Publishing in 1992
ISBN: 1870754085

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Front cover

Cover of THE IRONSTONE QUARRIES OF THE MIDLANDS: HISTORY, OPERATION AND RAILWAYS PART IX LEICESTERSHIRE by Eric Tonks

Contents

  • The Holwell Area
  • Holwell Quarries (Holwell) and (Davis)
  • Holwell Quarries and Mines (Stanton/S&LM)
  • Ab Kettleby Quarries
  • Wartnaby Quarries (Stanton) and (Birkinshaw)
  • The Eaton Area
  • Eaton Quarries (Holwell-Stanton-S&LM)
  • Narrow gauge tramways - Dukes & Hurst pits
  • Standard gauge tramway - Beastalls pit and Bagshaws pit
  • Eaton Ropeway Quarries
  • Mill Hill Quarries
  • The lorry workings at Eaton
  • Hursts quarry
  • Windmill Hill quarry
  • Eaton No. 4 quarry
  • Eaton No.5 quarry
  • Hursts South quarry
  • Mill Hill quarry
  • Eaton after restoration
  • Waltham Quarries, Waltham on the Wolds (Waltham) and (Holwell)
  • Waltham Quarries, Eaton and Knipton
  • Eastwell Quarries
  • Woolsthorpe Quarries
  • Woolsthorpe (Brewers Grave) Quarries - n.g. tramway
  • Harston Quarries south of the Denton-Harston road- n.g. and s.g tramways
  • Harston Quarries north of the Denton-Harston road - n.g. and s.g. tramways
  • The lorry-worked quarries
  • The outlying quarries
  • Sproxton Quarries
  • Tilton Quarries
  • Nevill Holt Quarries
  • Explanation of tables