Photograph Notes: This old quarry was used by the Derwent Valley Water Board to extract stone to build the Derwent and Howden dams in the Upper Derwent Valley, immediately above the Ladybower Reservoir that may be better known. 100 years ago this quarry would have been alive with activity as the dams were nearing completion. A network of railway tracks worked up and down gradients within the quarry on standard gauge tracks. The locomotives drew water from towers fed by a network of water mains across the site, also utilised for the massive steam cranes on much wider gauge tracks. Work soon came to an end and the quarry lay deserted. Silver birch trees took hold. When the Ladybower dam was completed the quarry was deemed to have served its purpose and the land was donated to the National Trust about 1947/8. The cliffs are now very popular with climbers who call them Lawrence Field. That's the flat land on the top; land that holds traces of human occupation possibly going back over 2,000 years.
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