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Quarrymen of The Box Freestone Quarries

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Dancey, Franklin, Greenman, Grinman and 8 others
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  • Edward Phelps (1864 - 1877)
    Died in an accident in the Box Quarries. Accident recorded as "Fall of stone off stack in mine"
  • Edward Hillier (1844 - 1930)
  • Frederick Moules (1859 - 1947)
  • George Hancock (1833 - 1912)
  • Charles James Wilkins (1876 - d.)
    Name: Charles James Wilkins * Gender: Male * Birth Date: abt 1876 * Enlistment Age: 40 * Marriage Date: 15 Apr 1899 * Marriage Place: Box * Document Year: 1916 * Residence Place: Kingsdown Gardens, B...

This is a project to gather all the Quarrymen who mined limestone in the Quarries of Box. Mining first started in the Quarry in the Roman Times. It flourished in the Victorian era, but mining in the quarry ceased in the 1970s.www.boxpeopleandplaces.co.uk/uploads/2/3/9/9/23997442/2766917_orig.jpg
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