DOWN A QUARRY
PRINCE’S NOVEL TRIP. (Australian & N.Z. Cable Assn.) LONDON, June 11. The Prince of Wales, at the end of a four-days’ busy stay in the West Country, visited the famous Delabole Slate Quarry at Okehampton. He curled himself up in an open iron truck on a bed of straw and sacking, and was let down into the workings. The veteran who controlled the lowering, boasts that nobody in his care has ever been injured in 36 years. It was not intended that, the Prince should descend at the rate of more than five miles an hour, but the Prince quicklj’ shouted: “Faster!” Then “Faster still!” He thoroughly enjoyed the rapid descent of five hundred feet. i The quarry has a remarkable record. It had been worked continuous ly for four hundred years till it stopped one week in last year’s general strike. Slate quarrying must be a very healthy occupation. The Prince of Wales’chatted with eight retired employees, whose ages ranged from seventy to eighty-seven. One began work at the age of nine. He had eight sons, seven of whom are working in the quarry.
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Greymouth Evening Star, 13 June 1927, Page 7
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