IT'S amazing what we find when clearing out the loft...
When Frank Gerrard, of Smith Lane, Egerton, was doing that long overdue task (his words, not mine!), he came across this picture of Cox Green Quarry in its heyday.
"As to the date, I can only guess it to be around the early 1900s," he says.
You may well be right, Mr Gerrard. The 1902 Bolton Directory lists Walsh, E.E. & Sons, quarry owners and stone merchants, Cox Green Quarries, Bromley Cross (Tel. 2y Eagley), but by the 1911 Directory, the ownership had changed to John James Walsh (the one named on the lorry).
By 1932, Eli Walsh had taken over, but I can't find out anything later than that.
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