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Introduction Introduction
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Quarrying, employment, and the protection of ancient monuments, 1930–1934 Quarrying, employment, and the protection of ancient monuments, 1930–1934
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Quarrying in the national interest, 1938–1945 Quarrying in the national interest, 1938–1945
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Preserving rural England, 1954–1955 and 1960 Preserving rural England, 1954–1955 and 1960
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4 Seeing like a Quarryman: Landscape, Quarrying, and Competing Visions of Rural England along Hadrian’s Wall, 1930–1960
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Published:May 2023
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Abstract
In the middle decades of the twentieth century sections of Hadrian’s Wall and the surrounding landscape came under the legislative protection of the state. This article examines the debates over the quarrying industry near the villages of Haltwhistle and Greenhead in south-west Northumberland, which was increasingly restricted as the protection of the Wall and its setting developed. Situated near or on the line of the Wall, the quarries became the focus of passionate debates about landscape, employment, community, and the national interest between 1930 and 1960. Bringing together local, regional, and national archives, this article deepens our understanding of the landscape’s transformation by examining the local voices in these debates, which have been overlooked by existing scholarship. It reveals that, from a local perspective, the preservation of the Wall was understood as a process of destructive change in the landscape. The transformation of the landscape brought together landowners, quarry managers, workers, and residents in a coalition that crossed class divisions. The quarrying debates exposed competing visions of rural England, Roman history, and the national interest, and the conflict responded to the changing circumstances of economic depression, war, and the decline of heavy industry.
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