Industrial History - Magpie Quarry
"Deep in the rural south Shropshire countryside lies Magpie Hill. A few clues remain to its industrial past as a quarry, and today it remains a source of the exceptionally hard dhustone.
Atop the hill, known by locals as ‘The Magpee’, the views span for miles in all directions, presenting a colourful and ever-changing patchwork of fields. On the hill itself, grassland gives way to wild flowers, gorse and shrubs."
In the 1860s, Clee Hill experienced its own industrial revolution. Stone quarrying became a commercial industry...Today all that remains are twisted metal girders, rusty steel and crumbling concrete foundations. Here you see the crusher and machinery at the beginning of the ropeway (c1900 top photo courtesy of Alf Jenkins) and today (2020).
Kind permission given by Alf Jenkins to republish extracts from his book Titterstone Clee Hill – Everyday Life Industrial History & Dialect [Jenkins, A.E. (1983/6th reprint 2018). A.E Jenkins, Ludlow, UK