Jackdaw Quarry
One of the great features of Yorkshire is the wide variety of quality stone which is to be found across the county, around Aberford on the Parlington Estate and on the north bank of the Cock Beck are numerous worked out old quarries, looking closely at the stone face you can often find the quarrying marks, holes drilled for explosives. Today the number of quarries is much less, but the size of them is far greater, the photograph of Jackdaw Quarry just off the A64 near Tadcaster is one such example. I recently took some pictures around the quarry and this one in particular I liked because of the intense cloud formation. The view is looking roughly south and is across a worked out part of the quarry.
The photo reminds me of an old quarry I visited behind the site of ‘Lead Church’ way back in the 1960’s when I was with a few scouting friends looking for a place to have a campfire .