Crushers

A happy afternoon exploring an old abandoned stone quarry yielded lots of old machinery quietly rusting and rotting away. Here two crushers sit side-by-side, both made by Robert Broadbent & Son Ltd., Phoenix Ironworks, Stalybridge. On the right is a jaw crusher of the Blake's patent type for primary crushing of larger pieces of rock. To the left is a roll crusher designed to break smaller pieces of rock down to cubes for roads and paths etc. I thing that the remains below the crushers might have included some form of rotary screen but the decay of the various parts made it difficult to be sure.