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Museum
Represents a museum
WC
No
EventsForChildren
No
Place
The town or city
nr Canonbie
HearingLoop
No
IsIncludedThisYear
No
DisabledAccess
No
Activities
<p>Yes</p><p>Book onto a tour and walk through the now tranquil woodland to explore the atmospheric depths of the mine led by the engineer who worked there. Hear the stories of gelignite hammered into the rock walls by hand, the �make do and mend� approach to engineering problems after the War, and search by torchlight for shell fossils in the shale. Teas are available afterwards in Canonbie Village Hall, together with an exhibition from the Miners Reminiscence Project. Prior booking is essential. Please phone Solway Heritage on 01387 247543 on Monday 8 September, between 9.00-17.00. Stout boots and torch recommended.</p><p> </p>
OpeningTime1
Pre-booked tours 10.30, 13.30
IsNewThisYear
No
ID
Google Panorama ID
10308
Refreshments
No
Street
The street address
(From Canonbie, B6357 through Rowanburn, uphill;
AddressLine2
L at crossroads onto B6318)
Postcode
DG14
Parking
No
DisabledWC
No
LimitedAccess
No
NotAccessible
No
Dublin Core
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Title
A name given to the resource
Harelawhill Quarry & Rowanburn Miners' Project
Source
A related resource from which the described resource is derived
dumfriesandgalloway
Identifier
An unambiguous reference to the resource within a given context
1066
Type
The nature or genre of the resource
Museum
Spatial Coverage
Spatial characteristics of the resource.
current,55.86362,-4.261207;
Description
An account of the resource
<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 �tubs� 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>
Date
A point or period of time associated with an event in the lifecycle of the resource
1770s