Acknowledgements

Project Staff: Arthur Baldwin, Tricia Brindle, Dominic Cooper, Suzanne Davis, Alan Green and Liz Hinchliffe.

Project Partners: Horse + Bamboo, Mis Pennine Arts, Heritage Recording, Centre for Virtual Environments (University of Salford), CAR Video Unit.

Project Funders: The Heritage Lottery Fund, Lancashire County Council and Rossendale Borough Council.

Steering Group Partners:  North West RIGS Group, United Utilities, Lancashire County Council, Rossendale Borough Council and Aggegate Industries

Volunteers:  Thanks to all the Valley of Stone volunteers who have led guided walks, toiled to reclaim Rossendale's unique quarrying heritage, contributed to the oral history project, catalogued relics and provided valuable material and information.

With special thanks to volunteers Mike Lee and Martyn Wright, without whom this project might never have happened.

Pictures Provided By: Bacup Natural History Society, Whitworth Historical Society, Rawtenstall Library, Rossendale Museum, Neil Caygill, Steve Walker, Ian Tilton

Material Provided By: Manuscripts provided by the late John Davies & the late Gordon Taylor in Ratwenstall and Bacup Libraries.  Gazatteers on industrial archaeology in Whitworth and Haldingden by Mike Rothwell.  Masonry advice provided by Neil Caygill.  Old newspaper cuttings provided by John Simpson.  Diagrams and illustrations by the late John B Taylor.  Source material also from Lancaster University Archaeological Unit, Rossendale Quarries, 1997 and from University of Manchester Archaeological Unit, The Rossendale Quarrying Industry: Archaeological Assessment Report, 2003.