Newspaper cutting
Worksop Guardian
Category
Ephemera
Date
19 Aug 1955
Materials
newspaper
Measurements
345 x 220 mm
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Mr Straw's House, Nottinghamshire
NT 749582.34
Summary
One of a series of newspaper cuttings from various positions in Endcliffe Villa, all pertaining to Local History - other than Worksop. Two photographs of a deliberately engineered rock fall and clear up operation at Cresswell Craggs published in the Worksop Guardian on 19th August 1955. 'Precautionary Work at Cresswell Craggs As we reported last week, dangerous rocks which overhung the road at Cresswell Craggs were removed by bulldozers and chains as a precautionary measure. The work was undertaken by the National Coal Board.' Creswell Crags is an enclosed limestone gorge on the border between Derbyshire and Nottinghamshire, England, near the villages of Creswell and Whitwell. The cliffs in the ravine contain several caves that were occupied during the last ice age, between around 43,000 and 10,000 year s ago. Its caves contain the northernmost cave art in Europe. The evidence of occupation found in the rich series of sediments that accumulated over many thousands of years is regarded as internationally unique in demonstrating how prehistoric people managed to live at the extreme northernmost limits of their territory during the Late Pleistocene period. '
Makers and roles
Worksop Guardian , printer and publisher