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Re: Granite Quarry at Threlkeld
« Reply #9 on: Tuesday 13 September 11 18:36 BST (UK) »
By the way, one thing that became really apparent was that that quarry played a large part in the paving of a huge proportion of the cities of England.

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Re: Granite Quarry at Threlkeld
« Reply #10 on: Thursday 22 September 11 08:50 BST (UK) »

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Re: Granite Quarry at Threlkeld
« Reply #11 on: Tuesday 13 December 11 10:10 GMT (UK) »
I realise that I am coming to this topic very late but just wanted to say that I worked with men from Keswick Granite Company which owned Threlkeld Granite and they made great distinction between being rock men as opposed to stone men.  Stone men quarried the like of sandstone, limstone, shale chalk etc while rock men quarried the much harder granites and igneous rocks (rocks that at one time were molten magma deep beneath the surface).

The Noons seem to have followed the granite type rocks and there were quarries of similar stone at Shap (Westmorland) with Shap Granite, Greenhead (Northumberland) with dark grey dolerite, west Cumbria in various small outcrops of the Ennerdale granophyre and over the border in Scotland there were several granite quarries in what is now Dumfries and Galloway.

I went to school with a JAck noon in the early fifties in Carlisle.
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Re: Granite Quarry at Threlkeld
« Reply #12 on: Friday 24 February 12 10:19 GMT (UK) »
My partner is the Granddughter of Albert Noon b. 4 March 1901 14 Bridge St, Middleton in Teesdale d. 1 February 1972 3 Milbank, Keswick.
Albert married Frances Ellen Nanson 3 November 1923
They had 2 daughters:
Frances Audrey Noon
b. 17 February 1924 Derwentfolds, Threlkeld
d. 28 June 2007 Blackburn Royal Infirmary
Marjorie Paulina Noon
b. 24 August 1926 Threlkeld
d. August 2001 Warrington
Albert was one of 6 children of:
Joseph William Noon
b.  29 June 1876 New Town, Middleton
d. 1 February 1955 Manor Crest, Ambleside Rd, Keswick
Alice Mary Stuart
b. 9 July 1877 Threlkeld
d. 15 August 1958 Keswick
The other children of Joseph & Alice were:
Beatrice b. 1899 Threlkeld (married Robert Holmes)
Annie Alexandra b. 26 June 1902 Middleton in Teesdale d. 1976
(m. Tom McCrossan)
Florence b. 1905 Threlkeld
(m. Jackson Varah)
Edna May b. 2 May 1909 Threlkeld d. 8 April 1941
Margaret b. 2 May 1909 Threlkeld d. 13 June 1980 (m. Frank Asquith)

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Re: Granite Quarry at Threlkeld
« Reply #13 on: Monday 06 November 23 22:19 GMT (UK) »
Hi,

I'm the great grandson of Beatrice noon, and the great great grandson of Joseph William noon, in the above post.
Very interesting to read.
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