Made by Betty and Cyril Ramsden, this film shows the workings of Settle Limes Limited, a lime stone quarry in North Yorkshire. The couple were semi-professional filmmakers filming both for pleasure and taking on commissions from companies such as the Yorkshire Evening Post. Title-A Ramsden Film Title-Stone Harvest The film opens with a sign for the registered office of Settle Limes Limited on Duke Street, Settle.  Next there is a shot of a sign reading Threshfield Works and Grassington...

Made by Betty and Cyril Ramsden, this film shows the workings of Settle Limes Limited, a lime stone quarry in North Yorkshire. The couple were semi-professional filmmakers filming both for pleasure and taking on commissions from companies such as the Yorkshire Evening Post. Title-A Ramsden Film Title-Stone Harvest The film opens with a sign for the registered office of Settle Limes Limited on Duke Street, Settle.  Next there is a shot of a sign reading Threshfield Works and Grassington followed by views of a large quarry face where a digger works to remove the stone, placing it into a dumper truck. This operation is repeated until the trucks are full and driven away to the processing plant, with plumes of smoke rising into the air from the top of the kilns in the distance. Title-The crushing machine The broken stones are transported by conveyer belt and put through the mechanical crushing process. Title-After grading, smaller stones are dispatched for use in smelting in the steel industry. The stones are loaded from a hopper into small rectagular wagons running on railway lines and pushed by workers through to another part of the quarry to a smelter; smoke can be seen pouring out of the chimneys connected to the smelting machine. Title-Larger stones conveyed to kilns for reduction to quick lime. Some of the V shaped tripper wagons are pulled along by a cable attached to them all and are emptied into the tops of the kilns. Title-Kilns are stoked at a lower level, half way up the kilns. Two men shovel coal into the kiln with the red hot stones. Title-Calcining process takes about twelve days. The camera slowly tilts down to show the cave-like bottom exit form the kilns, with railway tracks running out of it. (These kilns were unique in that their bottom sections were cut into, and down through the limestone cliff face).  Title-Some quick lime is hydrated to form slack lime. Some men fill bags with a white, powdery substance. Title-Bulk of quick lime travels to rail head for distribution. A wagon being pushed by a worker emerges form the tunnel like exit at the bottom of the kiln in the rock (about 20 feet inside), and is attached to the cable which pulls it along the rail tracks down to the Threshfield Station where it is tipped into standard garage wagons. Title-The End Betty and Cyril won a Certificate of Merit from the Leeds Camera Club for the film.