Geograph - photograph every grid square

I love any information board. This one is great.

The quarry, called Bayston Hill Quarry or known locally as Sharopstone Quarry is owned and operated by Tarmac, a company involved in road building nationwide for years under various names. The quarry produced in excess of 850,000 tonnes of stone each year, or over 2,000 tonnes each working day.

Quarrying started in 1882 and boomed here after 1947. The quarry specialised in supplying a durable sandstone aggregate used in road building and surfacing. The stone here is geologically scarce and rare.

The rock here is amongst some of the oldest in England and was laid down maybe 590 - 570 million years ago, beside a deep ocean situated where South Africa is today...The rock was compressed and folded and slowly swirled around, later buried under much later deposits and then more recently under post glacial deposits, to be discovered here and mined and blasted out for roads.

There are also fossilised tree stumps here and a pre-Roman road. Who knew!?!