Lower Balls Green mine is another freestone quarry worked (I think) at about the same time as Box but possibly even a bit later. The rock was prised out without saws then worked underground. It appears that no cranes were used at all in this mine unlike Upper Balls Green mine nearby. There was a rockfall along the main passage which appears to have stopped work as a crushed wagon is under the fall and an intact one just the other side. There are large quantities of worked stone behind the fall.
The floors are built up with quarry waste as they are in Box and other mines. Around the start of WW2 this waste was extracted and used to make the runways at Aston Down airfield near Stroud. The depth of waste can be seen near the entrance.
Why are there rocks suspended by chains? If anyone knows let me know. And yes they are bra sized!
Crushed wagon
And this it what it should look like!
Assorted grafitti
Worked stone after the fall
Loading bay
Pillar robbing!
These rocks are the old sleepers or supports for the railway
The depth of waste
The floors are built up with quarry waste as they are in Box and other mines. Around the start of WW2 this waste was extracted and used to make the runways at Aston Down airfield near Stroud. The depth of waste can be seen near the entrance.
Why are there rocks suspended by chains? If anyone knows let me know. And yes they are bra sized!
Crushed wagon
And this it what it should look like!
Assorted grafitti
Worked stone after the fall
Loading bay
Pillar robbing!
These rocks are the old sleepers or supports for the railway
The depth of waste
