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Deep Dark and Dusty
This video is the story of Bathstone, its quarries and quarrymen. 120 minute running time. This is a very well researched and produced video, it takes you underground to see a working quarry, a museum and abandoned workings. You are shown modern and historical working methods it further relates the to the extraxtion and how the stone was used in buildings by engineers such as Ralph Allen and Brunel. Of further interest are the secondary uses of the Quarries with historical photos of military use including amunition, storage of national treasures during the blitz of London.
The video contains some excellent footage of Tunnel Quarry, Monkton Farleigh and Conpenacre and well as many other sites which Nettleden have visited, if you like subterannea you will LOVE this video.
Video: £19.95 GPB
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Lifting the Lid on Box Hill
With the kind co-operation of the Ministry of Defence, we are able to lift the ‘secret lid’ on Box Hill
and take you on a video tour of the never publicly seen Tunnel Quarry in Corsham, Wiltshire.
Tunnel Quarry was one of the United Kingdom’s central ammunition depots.
Conceived in the mid-1930’s to hide from the enemy over 100,000 tons of bombs, shells,
cordite and small arms ammunition that the country depended upon to win the Second World War.
Thanks to the legacy of Isambard Kingdom Brunel and the local Bathstone quarrymasters and quarrymen,
over 100 acres of underground passageways and chambers were converted by hundreds of men,
under the leadership of the Royal Engineers,
into an ammunition magazine storage area of gargantuan proportions with unique architecture.
Video: £19.95 GPB
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Both of the above videos are available from The Quarrymans Arms, Box in Wiltshire
or from MVP Video Services, 3 Ash Grove, Guildford, Surrey GU2 8UT (Phone 01483 563060).
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