A reconstruct of a quarry wagon. Only the pieces of rail are original, but are not where they were found.
The Quarry face belongs to the Runcorn Boundary Quarry
A closer look at Runcorn Boundary Quarry
A face of the Stonehills Quarry, popularly known as "Stenhills"
The Highland Road quarry was one filled in and transformed
in the 1920's'.
Here there are bowling greens,tennis courts,
bandstand and a putting green.
Top of one of the quarry faces of the Highland Road quarry
This shows the slots carved into the rock face to support a crane, Highland Road quarry.
This is one part of the Highlands road quarry which was not landscaped.
An old tramway route, now used as a footpath, meanders through the hills.
It follows the exact path as shown on old maps. Its last quarry use
was to transport the waste material from the newer
Weston quarries to fill in the older exhausted Runcorn quarries.
One of the best known routes into the Runcorn hill site
from Weston Road probably the entrance.
to Runcorn Boundary Quarry.
Blocked entrance to Weston North Quarry, used as a Council tip in the 1960's after its contents
were used for the foundations of the new Widnes to Speke road, so called "Route 7"
Top of Quarry face of Mill Brow Quarry,another 1920's landscaping, which became Rock Park
with tennis courts etc.
More of Mill Brow quarry, now Rock Park, today
South quarry, Weston. Completely filled in during the 1970's
East Quarry, Weston. This was probably the largest of the quarries. It was used as settling beds for lime slurry
Wrights Quarry and East Quarry, Weston. This view is taken from the other end of the quarry
sites to the previous view, i.e. from the Wright's Quarry end.
The quarry came up to the stony outcrop in the
foreground. Here stood a small row of cottages known as 'Mount Serrat',
right on the edge of the quarry. Only this rock outcrop where
the cottages stood, and the path which led to them
from nearby Weston Road, survives.
The only remaining quarry which gives some idea of the size and depth of the original quarry,
although this has been partially filled in with spoil. Locally known as
'Frogs Mouth Quarry',
from the shape of an overhanging rock. The area is also known as 'Happy Valley'