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Statham's Quarry (also known as Darling Range Quarry, and then Perth City Council's Darling Range Quarry after 1920) is the site of a quarry on the Darling Scarp on the southern side of the entrance of the Helena River valley on to the Swan Coastal Plain in Perth, Western Australia. It is located in Gooseberry Hill and is within the bounds of the Gooseberry Hill National Park == History == Statham's Quarry is considered a rare example of a stone quarry which has retained physical evidence of its operations and is associated with the development of the quarry industry in Western Australia. The quarry was established by Thomas Statham and William Burton in 1894〔''Description of granite quarry owned by Statham (near Zig Zag railway)'' The West Australian, 4 May 1894, p.3〕〔''The West Australian'' 29 August 1898, p.3 ''Darling Range Quarries - Ministerial visit to the quarry and inspection of new machinery''〕 until Statham's death in 1920. The Perth City Council operated the quarry following Statham's death and material from the quarry was used to as street paving in Perth during the early 1900s.〔 The rocks for the groyne at City Beach also came from the quarry 〔''Statham's Quarry Walk Trail'' pamphlet - Kalamunda Shire Council〕 There was also a clay quarry operation known as Statham's in Glen Forrest which was a brickworks. The quarry is the claimed location of one of the most extensive dolerite dikes on the Darling Scarp.〔Notes in the Stathams Quarry Walk Trail pamphlet produced by the Shire of Kalamunda〕 The quarry was serviced by the Kalamunda Zig Zag section of the Upper Darling Range Railway during the time of its operation (which closed in 1949), and was finally put out of operation by a bushfire in 1957. The location has been susceptible to bushfires, the most recent being in the early 2000s which was severe and very hot, reducing the ground cover around the quarry and adjacent country severely. 抄文引用元・出典: フリー百科事典『 ウィキペディア（Wikipedia）』 ■ウィキペディアで「Statham's Quarry」の詳細全文を読む スポンサード リンク
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