Quarrying

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Quarries


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Quarry worker at St Ouen


Quarrying has been an important industry in Jersey for a long time, and during the 19th century it was an important source of revenue for the island, from stone exported for such projects as the Thames Embankment and Copenhagen Harbour. Today the island's precious supply of granite is used almost exclusively locally.

Only two major quarries remain - Ronez, which is slowly carving out a large hole in the north coast of the island, and Granite Products in St Peter's Valley. However, in days gone by there were quarries, small and large, scattered all over the island. Wherever a granite rock face was exposed, landowners sought to profit by extracting stone.


The Germans carried out extensive quarrying at the bottom of Mont Pinel during the Occupation to provide stone for sea walls and other defensive installations

  • The former china quarry at Handois

  • Collecting quarry stone for roadmaking

  • The Rive family quarry provided stone for the construction of Victoria Avenue

  • The stone crushing plant at Les Maltieres, Grouville, in use by the Germans during the Occupation

  • Mont Mado in the 1870s by Ernest Baudoux

  • La Moye Quarry in the 1870s by Baudoux

  • Michael Marks, foreman of the China Quarry

  • A Jersey quarry, but where?

  • St Ouen

  • St Ouen

  • Nicklin's Quarry

  • Narrow gauge rail track at La Moye Quarry

  • Rosiere Quarry, La Moye, painted by Francis William Synge Le Maistre

La Moye Quarry

La Moye Quarries, close to La Corbiere on the south-west corner of Jersey, were once the island's largest, and one of the great industries of the island. Stone from La Moye was used in the construction of St Helier Harbour, but it was also exported and used to build the Thames Embankment. The Jersey Western Railway was extended from St Aubin to La Corbiere, chiefly to provide access on a branch line to the quarries. This is a very rare picture showing the quarry in use. Today the excavated area is used as a holding reservoir for the island's desalination plant, which converts sea water to drinking water
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