Open questions: Hampshire

Where sources disagree, MineArchive keeps both accounts rather than picking one; where a fact could not be settled, the record says so. 6 such claims on 3 records. All regions.

Buriton Chalk Pit

• The British Portland Cement Company bought the site in the 1927 estate sale and the works were all closed in 1939. (disputed)
• The former chalk quarry was worked up to the end of the Second World War. (disputed)
• In spite of blasting at faces some sixty feet high, the most serious accident recalled at the works was a broken leg. (uncertain)

Bursledon Brickworks

• The brickworks were founded in 1897 by Robert and Edward Ashby of the builders’ merchants Hooper & Ashby, the company being renamed the Bursledon Brick Co. Ltd in 1903. (uncertain)
• A local history instead dates the founding to 1896 and credits it to Edward Hooper’s partnership with the Ashby family. (uncertain)

Old Burghclere Lime Quarry

• The Derelict Places account states the quarry and kilns were opened in 1885 by Messrs Forders, taken over by British Portland Cement Manufacturers Ltd in 1913, and closed finally in April 1938 for lack of demand. Wikipedia instead says the quarry was actively worked only until the beginning of the 20th century. (disputed)