[Barrie Yates]

Originally Posted by Gordon Booth

Talking quarries, we used to go up to Hapton quarry and the moors when I was a boy. Although the quarry was closed there were hundreds, possibly thousands, of flags ready prepared. Are they still there? They must be worth an absolute fortune if they are, try buying reclaimed flags!
Does anyone know when that quarry closed?
I remember the scrambling at Green Haworth, I think it was one of the main clubs at the time.

We used to go swimming in the old quarry off Burnley Road - the water was a bright green as I remember it - don't know about the Green Howarth quarry but I remember Red Shale, I think it was on the way up to Spire Farm, past Arden Hall. Remember being told that it was a very poor coal seam that had ignited and gradually burnt away - anyone know anything about it?