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H. Harkewitz / Threlkeld Granite Company

Threlkeld quarry was opened in the 1870s by H. Harkewitz, a German-descended businessman, to supply railway ballast; he formed the Threlkeld Granite Co in 1892 to run it alongside a precast concrete works, before the firm merged into the Keswick Granite Company in 1936.

Mines operated

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Threlkeld Quarry and Mine Cumbria 1870–1936

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