Comments on: A Blackpowder Blast From the Past http://becausetheyrethere.com/2013/02/26/a-blackpowder-blast-from-the-past/ ...and a few more reasons for climbing mountains Thu, 04 Sep 2014 17:35:34 +0000 hourly 1 http://wordpress.com/ By: McEff http://becausetheyrethere.com/2013/02/26/a-blackpowder-blast-from-the-past/#comment-4321 Sat, 11 Jan 2014 17:28:51 +0000 http://becausetheyrethere.com/?p=5794#comment-4321 Hi Iain. Thanks very much for that. Positive feedback keeps me going and fuels me up for something else. Glad you liked the garden centre comment.
Cheers, Alen

]]> By: teigl http://becausetheyrethere.com/2013/02/26/a-blackpowder-blast-from-the-past/#comment-4318 Sat, 11 Jan 2014 11:20:56 +0000 http://becausetheyrethere.com/?p=5794#comment-4318 Just found this post…utterly fascinating. I love quarries and mines and find them beautiful, if poignant places. I feel you have summed up my thoughts exactly in this post, and I loved your description of a twee garden centre as in a “parallel world”. Thanks for such an entertaining read.
cheers,
Iain

]]> By: mountaincoward http://becausetheyrethere.com/2013/02/26/a-blackpowder-blast-from-the-past/#comment-2294 Fri, 29 Mar 2013 07:34:29 +0000 http://becausetheyrethere.com/?p=5794#comment-2294 Ooh – I wouldn’t have wanted to be next to a knacker’s yard. The smell must have been horrific and I love animals so would have been upset daily.

The quarry doesn’t blast like that any more. They still blast but nothing which rocks the village. That’s progress I guess… It was interesting reading what goes on in quarrying though on your post.

]]> By: McEff http://becausetheyrethere.com/2013/02/26/a-blackpowder-blast-from-the-past/#comment-2291 Fri, 29 Mar 2013 01:35:13 +0000 http://becausetheyrethere.com/?p=5794#comment-2291 Hi Carol. Wow. That sounds like a whole load of great entertainment and completely free as well. Do you wear hard hats when you’re sitting on your sofa?
We once had a house that was next to a knackers yard, but that wasn’t so much exciting as smelly. And one summer we had to get the council out when there was an explosion in the rat population. That was mildly entertaining though somewhat worrying.
Cheers, Alen

]]> By: mountaincoward http://becausetheyrethere.com/2013/02/26/a-blackpowder-blast-from-the-past/#comment-2258 Fri, 22 Mar 2013 21:59:41 +0000 http://becausetheyrethere.com/?p=5794#comment-2258 Not sure how I missed that – very interesting stuff. We live opposite a quarry and we used to be sat on the sofa sometimes and suddenly the whole house would shake a couple of times. That was then followed by the sound of the blast from the quarry – back in around the 70s, they used to rock the whole village when they blasted! Another time we went up the woods opposite the quarry face (across a road and probably a couple of hundred yards distant) and found it was littered by fallen trees and huge boulders – glad I wasn’t having a stroll there at the time!
Carol.

]]> By: McEff http://becausetheyrethere.com/2013/02/26/a-blackpowder-blast-from-the-past/#comment-2234 Fri, 15 Mar 2013 22:31:40 +0000 http://becausetheyrethere.com/?p=5794#comment-2234 Hi Martin. Thanks very much for that.
Alen

]]> By: mbc1955 http://becausetheyrethere.com/2013/02/26/a-blackpowder-blast-from-the-past/#comment-2233 Fri, 15 Mar 2013 22:24:45 +0000 http://becausetheyrethere.com/?p=5794#comment-2233 Thanks for the like on my blog. Quarrying’s never held any focussed interest for me before, but this was fascinating. Passing by the old mines, following the routes the miners themselves walked, I’ve always admired them, but this is a different level. I’ll be back.

Martin

]]> By: McEff http://becausetheyrethere.com/2013/02/26/a-blackpowder-blast-from-the-past/#comment-2180 Tue, 05 Mar 2013 20:51:01 +0000 http://becausetheyrethere.com/?p=5794#comment-2180 I came across some references to heading blasts at Shap when I was researching this, Greg. In the blue quarry and the pink quarry. That’s interesting about the heathens ??? I’ve not heard that word before. And the beard’s a lot neater these days, and somewhat greyer it must be said.
Cheers, Alen

]]> By: Greg. http://becausetheyrethere.com/2013/02/26/a-blackpowder-blast-from-the-past/#comment-2178 Tue, 05 Mar 2013 20:30:12 +0000 http://becausetheyrethere.com/?p=5794#comment-2178 Loved the technical info Alen. I wish I’d asked my dad more about Shap Granite. I do know that the grey patches found in the middle of the granite were called heathens. Love the bushy beard.

]]> By: McEff http://becausetheyrethere.com/2013/02/26/a-blackpowder-blast-from-the-past/#comment-2165 Tue, 05 Mar 2013 12:20:19 +0000 http://becausetheyrethere.com/?p=5794#comment-2165 Hey, thanks for that, Dohn. I think an article about your railroad days in the Rocky Mountains would be right up my street. Put it on your list of things to do.
Cheers, Alen

]]> By: earthstonestation http://becausetheyrethere.com/2013/02/26/a-blackpowder-blast-from-the-past/#comment-2162 Tue, 05 Mar 2013 03:55:46 +0000 http://becausetheyrethere.com/?p=5794#comment-2162 Speechless. I could write an article about all that I enjoyed on this trip. Read it three times now and still can’t find the words other than it reminds me of my old railroad days in the Rocky Mountains. Thanks amigo.

]]> By: McEff http://becausetheyrethere.com/2013/02/26/a-blackpowder-blast-from-the-past/#comment-2148 Fri, 01 Mar 2013 21:06:39 +0000 http://becausetheyrethere.com/?p=5794#comment-2148 Hi Mrs Potter. Thanks very much for that.
Cheers, Alen

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