I have very fond childhood memories of being on holiday in the Peak District and visiting the Crich Tramway Museum located next to here, thinking it was bloody marvellous. Of course back then in the late 1990s this quarry was very much still in use!
Fast forward a couple of decades and in the dying light of a chilly December day I found myself back at the Tramway Museum once again, but this time with a completely different objective in mind - the rock crusher in the quarry. I had been meaning to see it for ages, however never found the right time and someone then told me it was demolished so I scrubbed it from my map, until Mikeymutt went a while back and it went straight back on!
There isn't much detail about this place readily available however it was last used by Bardon Aggregates who closed it in 2010 after finding the limestone was contaminated with a substance that turned it a funny colour, and it never reopened.
Myself and Landie were rushing around here trying to get to as much as we could before it got too dark, which was quite fun. We couldn't get up one part of it because of the amount of water standing around the base of the crusher but other than that it was fine.
Thanks for looking
Fast forward a couple of decades and in the dying light of a chilly December day I found myself back at the Tramway Museum once again, but this time with a completely different objective in mind - the rock crusher in the quarry. I had been meaning to see it for ages, however never found the right time and someone then told me it was demolished so I scrubbed it from my map, until Mikeymutt went a while back and it went straight back on!
There isn't much detail about this place readily available however it was last used by Bardon Aggregates who closed it in 2010 after finding the limestone was contaminated with a substance that turned it a funny colour, and it never reopened.
Myself and Landie were rushing around here trying to get to as much as we could before it got too dark, which was quite fun. We couldn't get up one part of it because of the amount of water standing around the base of the crusher but other than that it was fine.
Thanks for looking
