The building material for the 'Granite City', but also supplied its stone much further afield to be used, for example, in public buildings in London, docks at Sepastopol and even a temple in Japan. The quarry is a 142m (465 feet)-deep chasm, and was closed in the 1970s.
More importantly the building to the left houses the illustrious pbases McGarva & smit10pics!