Lundy Granite Company. An industrial adventure
Details:
- Author(s) Rothwell, Peter, & Myrtle S Ternstrom
- Publication type Monograph
- Year published 2008
- Pages 186pp; illus
- Publisher Westwell Publishing
- Place Published Appledore
Topics:
- Name Business/Industry failure, decline, lack of success, etc: collapse of businesses
- Name Buildings: industrial
Countries:
Library:
- Name British Library
- City London
- County Greater London
- Country England
- Postcode NW1 2DB
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Notes:
provides an account of the history of the business, its decline and failure. Chapters include: 'The island and the Heaven famiky'; 'the Lundy Granite Co'; 'The village and the quarry complex'; 'Quarter Wall Cottages'; 'The Main incline'\; 'Quarry Quay'; 'The jetty'; 'End of quarrying'; 'Hope revived - a buyers steps in'; 'The judgement of the court'; 'The closing chapteer'. Extensive appendices [pp112-76] including many transcriptions of documents