Digging Bath Stone

Hartham Park Quarry circa 1945, showing quarryman Jack Osborn making a vertical saw cut with a frig bob. He is standing on a pick, the head of which is acting as a sliding fulcrum against the back of the frig bob, to keep the saw teeth engaged with the rock being sawn through. He is watched by Les Pullman on the left and Reg Pashley on the right. Note the carbide lamps. 

This photograph, by J.W. Spencer of Atworth, shows Corsham stone wharf in or shortly before 1902 and is also the view from which the enlargements of the block wagons on page 330 were taken. The Bath Stone Firms' horse and cart on the right are straddling the line of the combined Tramways No's 1 and 2 down to the wharf , which had joined together by Potley Bridge. Tramway No. 3 served the post-1885 stone yard and cranes in the right background, before curving round and dropping down to the wharf, running from right to left behind the yard buildings. Note that at this date the wharf cranes had not been provided with the distinctive pyramidical roofs seen in the later pictures.