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Beer Quarry Caves Poem

Nothing for Light

In 1758 the owner of the Beer stone quarry tried to ‘blast’ chalk out of the frozen ground above the quarry to make lime. The explosion caused some of the quarry roof to collapse killing 48 men including a boy who had been sent down to warn them. We all came bawling out of our […]

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