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The Granite Men - A History of the Granite Industries of Aberdeen and North East Scotland (Paperback)
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The Granite Men - A History of the Granite Industries of Aberdeen and North East Scotland (Paperback)
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Discovery Miles 5 900
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Granite is the most unyielding of building materials. The great
granite quarries of the North East are silent now, as are virtually
all of the 100 granite yards that existed in Aberdeen around the
year 1900. Yet in its time, the granite industry of north-east
Scotland was the engine that built civilisations. As early as the
sixteenth century, granite from Aberdeen and its vicinities was
building castles. In the heyday of the mid-nineteenth century, the
granite men of the North East hewed this material from the bowels
of the earth and used it to fashion the iconic structures that
defined the age. It paved the streets and embankments of London. It
was used to build bridges over the Thames. It was carved into
monuments for kings and commoners not only in Britain but all over
the world. None of it possible without the men that toiled in those
quarries and yards. This is the story of those granite men and
their industry.
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