White Watson
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White Watson was an early English geologist, sculptor, stonemason and carver, marble-worker and mineral dealer. In common with many learned people of his time, he was skilled in a number of artistic a
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A cross section of Derbyshire geology made from sections of rock by White Watson. Now in Derby Museum.
Henry Watson 1714?–1786 – image dated to c. 1800
White Watson gravestone in the churchyard of All Saints' Church, Bakewell, UK
Ashford Black Marble
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Ashford Black Marble is the name given to a dark limestone, quarried from mines near Ashford-in-the-Water, in Derbyshire, England. Once cut, turned and polished, its shiny black surface is highly deco
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…the water-powered marble mill in Ashford-in-the-Water. Henry Watson was largely responsible for founding the trade in the local Blue John fluorite and Ashford Black Marble, and provided the magnificent black and white marble flooring for the Great Hall at Chatsworth House in 1779. On leaving Sheffield School at the age…
A picture of Ecton Hill made using Ashford Black Marble
A picture of Matlock Bath engraved using Ashford Black Marble by Ann Rayner
An inlaid table in Derby Museum
Fossil found in Black Marble by William Martin of a type that was once thought to be a crocodile tail