Facit Sandstone Mine - a photo on Flickriver

            Facit Mine taps into the Haslingden series of sandstone deposits, a quite hard rock, which was used for paving flags, machine beds, construction and later hardcore and aggregate for motorway construction 

Some quarries in the area are now reopened with small scale production of flag stones and other products. Despite the abundance of quarries in the area : Facit, Britannia, Lands, Abraham etc; mine workings are very common – as the best stone is often found under thousands of tons of overburden and inferior stone – known as “ feight “, so adits were sunk and the stone excavated from pillar and stall workings 

Tramways remains that carried the stone down to the valley floor cross ever hill and in the late 19th century , the rail line from Accrington to Rochdale was opened – allowing ease of transport . 

These days the quarries seem to be used for off-road vehicles and motorbikes, most if not all will be totally unaware of what lurks below.

Taken on: November 27, 2014

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Facit Mine

Sandstone

underground

Facit

Lancashire

mine

Craig Hannah

England

Long Exposure

Derelict

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Camera: Canon EOS 70D, f/9.0, 52.7 sec, 10mm, ISO 200 (more info) (hide info)

Camera:	Canon EOS 70D
Aperture:	f/9.0
Exposure Time:	52.7
Focal Length:	10mm
ISO:	200
Exposure Bias:	0 EV
Flash:	Off, Did not fire
Exposure Program:	Unknown (9)
Exposure Mode:	Auto
Metering Mode:	Multi-segment
White Balance:	Manual
Color Space:	sRGB
Software:	Adobe Photoshop Elements 10.0 Windows
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