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Forest Of Dean Stone Firms Ltd

nobody@ipernity.com (tarboat) — Fri, 08 Mar 2013 07:42:58 +0000

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The Forest of Dean Stone Firms Ltd and predecessors have been processing pennant sandstone from quarries at Bixhead for over 200 years. The Cannop stone works opened in 1901 by Messrs Turner & Sons of Cardiff. Until the 1950s the Bicslade tramroad brought stone down what was the last horse-worked plateway in the Forest. When I visited the stone works in 1993 it was still using the old reciprocating stone saws in the sheds on the right. Today the processing has been completely modernised with new wire and circular saws.

www.fodstone.co.uk/home.htm

Cannop Stone Works

nobody@ipernity.com (tarboat) — Fri, 08 Mar 2013 07:43:12 +0000

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Wire saw

nobody@ipernity.com (tarboat) — Fri, 09 Mar 2012 06:51:42 +0000

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Sawing stone at the Cannop works of the Forest Of Dean Stone Firms. The cutting wire is just visible when viewed large.