_1064 Harelawhill Quarry & Rowanburn Miners' Project "<p>Pre-booked tours only. Harelawhill Quarry was in use from the 1770s until 1966. In the 1940s-50s it rang with the noise of pneumatic hammers, the boom and clatter of the empty \ufffdtubs\ufffd descending the mine and the grinding of the limestone crushers. In those decades the village of Rowanburn looked to the mine for employment after the depression years of the 1920s-30s, and the workforce extracted thousands of tons of limestone, most of which was crushed to make agricultural lime.<\/p><p> <\/p><p> <\/p>" Organization "<p>Pre-booked tours only. Harelawhill Quarry was in use from the 1770s until 1966. In the 1940s-50s it rang with the noise of pneumatic hammers, the boom and clatter of the empty \ufffdtubs\ufffd descending the mine and the grinding of the limestone crushers. In those decades the village of Rowanburn looked to the mine for employment after the depression years of the 1920s-30s, and the workforce extracted thousands of tons of limestone, most of which was crushed to make agricultural lime.<\/p><p> <\/p><p> <\/p>" 55.86362 -4.261207