Monument record 15029 - Site of Sand Pit and Weighbridge Control Room, Beeston

<1> RSK Environment Ltd., 2019, Beeston Cattle Market, Whitchurch Road, Tarporley, Cheshire West and Chester: Report on an Archaeological Evaluation and Level 1 Building Recording, R4372 (Client Report). SCH8787.

A small single storey brick structure thought to be part of the adjacent Second World War fuel storage facility (see CHER 4096). The survey identified that the building was most likely to have been constructed as a control room for a weighbridge associated with a sand-pit, worked from about 1910 to 1970. The sand pit and control room building are depicted on a 1974 Ordnance Survey map with the control room building located at the entrance of the sand-pit.

<3> Royal Air Force, 1944-1947, 1940s RAF Aerial Photographs from Operation Review, CPE\UK\1935 no.1180-1, 17/01/1947 (Aerial Photograph). SCH8041.

<4> Huntings Surveys Ltd, 1971-1973, 1971-1973 County Survey, HSL UK 73 60 Run 22 no.1579, 16/05/1973 (Aerial Photograph). SCH4881.

<5> JA Story & Partners, 1985, 1985 Story & Partners Survey, Run 15 no.161, 30/05/1985 (Aerial Photograph). SCH2993.

<6> National Remote Sensing Centre Ltd, 1992-3, National Remote Sensing Centre County Survey (1992-1993), 101/93 242-3, 26/08/1993 (Aerial Photograph). SCH5297.

<7> Various, Various, Oral communication to the HER, Edwards R, 02/03/2022 (Oral Communication). SCH2330.

Aerial photographs dating from the late 1940s to the mid-1980s (see 3-5) show the shifting extent of the sand quarry. The quarry site had been reclaimed and restored by the early 1990s (see 6).