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Granite Quarrying Grinds to a Halt

Posted on January 23, 2014 by Leslie D. Bartlett

Walking the ice field of Lanes Cove.
When did anyone last walk a frozen Lane Cove?

In weather like this, granite quarrying was suspended, and here in Lanes Cove stone piled to await the thaw of spring, and the arrival of the Philadelphia Stone Sloops.

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