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10 hours ago · The sunken plane wreck hidden 15m below water in Lancashire beauty spot. How two amateur divers opened up an international drugs ring in the Lancashire countryside. But Eccleston Delph has had its own real life crime drama unfolding beneath the surface.
Eccleston Quarry. Coordinates: 53.6291°N 2.7291°W. Eccleston Quarry is a mile south of Eccleston, Lancashire. It is also called Eccleston Delph and Eccy Delph (pronounced "ekky"). It is an old stone quarry that flooded. It is a popular site for scuba diving. Visibility is generally very poor and ropes have been strung between each underwater ...
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Apr 8, 1995 · From early times. Eccleston Delph has been known as the Eccy Delph, or Hurst House Delph for the last century, and was mined by 12 local quarrymen producing stone for Blackpool Promenade and thin slates to cover the local barns and roofs. The Family of "Hurst" who originally owned and worked the Quarry, were well known in the area as Mr Hurst ...
Eccleston Delph, a flooded quarry in the heart of Lancashire, was never meant to reveal its gruesome secret. But the body of Martin Johnstone never hit the bottom. Instead it came to rest on a ledge after the perpetrators of the most notorious deed in the history of crime in the North West, had bundled him over the edge.
Frederick Marsh ran the quarry from 1930 until his death in 1934, when his wife Freda took over. Freda Marsh ran the quarry from 1934 to 1940/41. Stone quarried at the time was used to build the Tarleton by-pass, between Banks and Tarleton. View of the quarry in the 1930's. Quarry worker 1930's. The Delph 1930's. The Delph 1930's
United Kingdom / England / Croston /. quarry. Eccleston Quarry is a mile south of Eccleston, Lancashire. It is also called Eccleston Delph. On 14 October 1979 a body was discovered in the quarry by local divers, known as the "Handless Corpse". This led to an international police investigation and the breakup of the "Mr Asia" narcotics gang.
Delph Watersports Centre is a former stone and slate quarry, in a natural beauty spot in Lancashire, UK. In 2000, it was redeveloped into a diving venue and is now filled with fresh, clear water from the natural spring and has a host of underwater attractions for scuba divers to train on. Read more about the history of The Delph on their website.
