Stairs Down hotel Stacks of graph paper rolls

Stacks of graph paper rolls sit gathering dust inside West Ryde Pumping Station

The brickworks operated under several owners from 1884

The quarry void at Hornsby Quarry drops away into darkness

The quarry operated from around 1905 to 2002

Ltd established the site from around 1913

Stairs Down hotel Stacks of graph paper rollsConcrete stairs descend into the quarry void at Hornsby Quarry, water pooling at the base and throwing light back up the shaft. This infrastructure provided working access within a dolerite quarry that supplied blue metal for northern Sydney's roads from around 1905 until 2002. Part of the Hornsby Quarry series.