Cobbles or Setts

[Heartland]

Some streets such as Pickford Street seen to retain the setts in the road. They may be made of granite or Rowley Rag and it would be of interest to discover that other members think of their use and how they were cut to the same regular size.

 

[Morturn]

There were quarries at Mancetter, Atherstone who employed gangs of women to cut sets for roads. They did it all with hammers by hand and eyed them to size.

 

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Laying Reclaimed Setts

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[Pedrocut]

Dolerite (Rowley Rag) quarried mainly from the large dolerite quarries on and around the Rowley Hills, and then dressed in nearby stone yards and works in Dudley, Old Hill, and Blackheath.

Worked by many small operators through the 19th century, later consolidated by The Rowley Rag Stone Co. Ltd. Some was also finished in Birmingham Corporation’s own yard at Montague Street, Bordesley, for city paving schemes.