Photographs and Documents Relating to Quarries in the South of Horton Parish

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  • Re HHG037_009.
    Someone showed me the back page of the recent Newsletter and asked if I could sort the issue out, so here goes.

    It isn’t Arcow Quarry – it’s Horton Quarry. It isn’t 1947 either!

    In 1949 Settle Limes Ltd, which owned the quarry, decided to replace the ageing kilns they had so bought one Knibbs kiln (this was only the second such kiln to be built anywhere) which alone was so succesful that it bosted output by 15%. It cost them £4174. Because it was so successfull, they bought two updated versions of the 1949 kiln, now called Priest-Knibbs kilns, in 1954. These were gas-fired. In 1960 they bought two more of the same type of kiln and also erected one experimental gas-fired P-K kiln but they couldn’t get this one to work to the required level of efficiency so in 1961 converted it to oil.

    The P-K kilns were demolished in 1985 (it might have been 1984) – I watched the last two coming down.
    So…
    1. not Arcow
    2. not 1947
    3. not soon pulled down

    Regards
    David
    Dr David Johnson
    Author Limestone industries of the Yorkshire Dales

    By Ian Fleming (06/02/2018)

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