Eileen S Chambers/Hanna

In the early 1900s farmers began making more use out their land by extracting sand and gravel for their own use and to sell to the public. This was hard, laborious work, with most being done manually. In the late 40s machinery was first used. Loading shovels were becoming more common and the manual loading […]

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S McConnell and Sons Stone and granite working has changed a great deal since the 1800s when everything was done by hand. Nowadays state of the art technology like CNC technology is used, combined with highly skilled stone masons and carvers. Loading the Robinson’s lorry with granite in the 1960s, Annalong. Kilkeel company S McConnell […]