RAF Harpur Hill
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RAF Harpur Hill is a former Royal Air Force station, situated at Harpur Hill near Buxton, Derbyshire in England. The site was operational from 1938 to 1960 and was mainly used as an underground muniti
Building from the old RAF camp
Tunnel in use as a mushroom farm in 1974
High Peak College campus in ex-RAF buildings on Burlow Road
Machine gun bunker on High Edge
Harpur Hill Quarry
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Harpur Hill Quarry is a disused limestone quarry on Harpur Hill, Derbyshire, England. Limestone was extracted there from 1835 to 1952 for lime burning at lime kilns to produce quicklime. The quarry wa
RAF Harpur Hill
…in the country across the 500 acres (200 ha) site. During World War I, Frith artillery range was located on the site. In 1938 the Air Ministry bought Harpur Hill Quarry from ICI. A total of 11 tunnels were built (concrete galleries covered by waste quarry stones) and dug into the hillside from 1938 to 1940 by McAlpine…
The quarry's lagoon in May 2012