Hartham Park was brought back into production by Bath & Portland stone in 1999 for the extraction of Ground Stone from the Bath Oolite. The production of such blocks was historically considered a more skilled job than hacking coal or ore out of the ground, so the work was distinguished by calling it quarrying. The Hartham Park underground quarry is what most people would call a mine but is referred to as an underground quarry by tradition because of its production of blocks of high quality building stone rather than coal or metal ore. Now, with stone having reasserted itself as the building material of choice for discerning clients and their architects, Hanson company Bath & Portland Stone have brought Box Ground Bath Stone back into production from their Hartham Park underground quarry just 200m from one of the original sources of the stone.

The last quarry producing Box Ground Bath Stone survived the recessions of the 1920s and early ’30s and the Second World War but finally succumbed to the post-War hegemony of Modernism and closed in the 1950s. It was used for the construction of Longleat, the home of the Marquis of Bath, Lacock Abbey, owned by the National Trust, and the incomparable Palladian mansion of Witley Court (pictured on these pages), now preserved by English Heritage as the ruin it became following a fire in 1937. And the most famous Combe Down Oolite stone is Box Ground Bath Stone. The most dense and durable of the Bath Stones come from the Combe Down Oolite formation. Operations Manager Shahram Hakimzadeh explains how the development took place Pwogram sa a pral pèmèt yon sineyas lokal kreye yon fim, filme fim nan Miami epi montre fim nan san yo pa kite Miami.Hanson Bath & Portland have tunnelled down to a lower level of their Hartham Park underground quarry to bring Box Ground Bath Stone back into production for the first time in 50 years. Pogram sa a ki nan twazyèm ane li, pral bay yon sineyas jiska $50,000 pou l kreye yon fim ak yon mikwo-bidjè, epi y ap bay sineyas la yon pwodiktè pou voye je sou pwojè a epi yo pral travay nan yon estidyo y ap pataje pou pwodui fim nan. Pogram rezidans pou sineyas Oolite Arts' Cinematic Arts la ap fèt pou ankouraje tout atis nan Miami ki abitye fè fim kout pou yo kab travèse nan fè yon fim long. Detalles completos de la aplicación haga clic aquí Como el movimiento 'de la granja a la mesa', este programa único permitirá a un cineasta local crear, filmar y proyectar su película, sin salir de Miami. Ahora en su tercer año, esta iniciativa le dará a un cineasta de Miami hasta 50,000 dólares para crear un largometraje narrativo de micro-presupuesto, junto a un productor para supervisar el proyecto y el espacio del estudio compartido para la producción. La Cinematic Arts Residency de Oolite Arts (Residencia en Artes Cinematográficas de Oolite Arts) tiene como objetivo elevar la celebrada comunidad de creadores de cortometrajes de Miami al mundo de los largometrajes. Note Application is also available in Spanish and Creole.

Akin to the farm to table movement, this unique program will enable a local filmmaker to create, shoot and screen their film, without ever leaving Miami.

Now in its third year, this initiative will give one Miami filmmaker up to $50,000 to create a narrative micro-budget feature, along with a producer to oversee the project and shared studio space for production. Oolite Arts' Cinematic Arts Residency aims to elevate Miami’s acclaimed community of short film creators into the realm of feature films.

Oolite blocks