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Issue 60 South Liverpool June 2012
The monthly independent advertiser 20,000 copies 17,500 into Homes 2,500 into Businesses in Woolton, Gateacre, Childwall, L18, L17, L15, NEW AREA Woolton Hill, Woolton Park and Calderstones
STONE LOVE by Stephen Guy
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Sandstone quarries once dotted the landscape, supplying material for walls and housing as Liverpool grew with the increasing prosperity of the port. In September 1903 J Courtney wrote a postcard to Miss Florence Ashley at 17 Clarence Street, Mount Pleasant, saying: “I am sorry I could not see you tonight as
INSIDE • INSIFDE 3 PAGES OF HOME SERVICES PAGES 23 TO 25 I am busy with the quarterly bills - hoping to see you on Sunday at 8.30.” The colourful card is captioned Old Quarry, Wavertree, and probably shows the former workings adjacent to the windmill off Woolton Road. By this time the area was starting to be developed and the quarry was later filled in. There was once so much sandstone in the Liverpool area that it was considered cheap building material. Many people worked in the quarries which became very big business. Numerous fine examples of distinctive
sandstone buildings can be seen ranging from cottages and former council houses to mansions such as Gateacre Grange and Sudley House. Woolton Quarry supplied the stone for Liverpool’s monumental A n g l i c a n Cathedral, completed in 1978.The cathedral towers above St James’s Cemetery which was originally a quarry in Georgian times. In law, quarries belong to the owners of the land on which they stand – in theory the owner is entitled to the stone and soil down to the centre of the earth. Quarries have been worked since ancient times: sandstone and limestone were hewn from the banks of the River Nile to build the temples and monuments of ancient Egypt.
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Fine marble such as Carrara, which has been quarried in Italy for centuries, is highlyprized because it is the very best for statues and monuments. In Victorian times sandstone was also quarried around Edinburgh, Glasgow and Newcastle. Two types of rock are quarried – stratified sedimentary and unstratified igneous types. Sandstone, like limestone, is stratified while granite is igneous. Ancient quarries were dug by hand but the introduction of gunpowder and later dynamite transformed what were small local operations into
huge national and international industries. Stone is now very expensive and there are modern examples of granite being used in the new developments around Liverpool’s waterfront. A huge new monastery being built on the site of Maryton Grange, Allerton Road, has impressive sandstone-dressed walls, complementing adjacent older walls and buildings. • Learn more about the history of Liverpool at the new Museum of Liverpool, Pier Head, open 10 am to 5 pm every day, admission free.