Hanson Aggregates Mere Quarry Wiltshire

[hydealfred]

I like to do a bit of history with my posts. This one has defeated me. I can't find any details about this site except that it produced argricultural lime. Agricultural lime is made from pulverised limestone or chalk. It is used within the farming world and can also be injected into coal burners to reduce NOx and SO2 emissions within power plants. If anyone has anything to add history wise Thanks to Tarmac who advises the workings were known as Charnage Quarry.

The shots were taken in July 2010.

One of the sensors on the sites weighbridge

The remains of the power supply

Pressure gauge serving a compressed air line

Some of the quarries product remains in the storage sheds

Remains of the crushing plant

Auxilliary motor within the crushing plant

Electrical distribution board detail

Fuse board schedule

Flywheels and drivebelts

Health and Safety

Crushing plant drive motor

Rather ancient looking electrical switch gear

General view of the site

The working face of the quarry

General view

No idea what the purpose of this was

Loading hopper detail

Machinery bearing detail within the crushing plant

Drive shaft detail of the crusher

The Patent Lightning Crusher Company Ltd - now thats a company name you wont forget

I think this is either a mig or tig welder power supply

Detail of the workshop area

Final external view

Thanks for looking.

 

[Foxylady]

Ah...love quarries. Nice find, Alf. The unknown thingy looks like a rotivator, but no idea what its purpose was in a quarry.
Great stuff. Cheers.

 

[TK421]

Nice one mate, I do love a good quarry, especially one thats gone rusty! Thanks for the report.

 

[night crawler]

Great report, some interesting stuff there. Think the welder would have been more like an Arc or mig on a site like that

 

[tarmac]

Charnage Quarry, Mere

Thanx for the nice pictures...The product in the sheds is Ground Aggricultural Lime or Agg Lime, its basically stone from the quarry that is milled to produce a powder, farmers use this to neutralize their fields. It has to be kept dry, thus the reason for the Lime Shed. ARC / Hanson's quarry at Mere, was called Charnage Quarry, may be why no info can be found (But Google does not offer much more with this !)