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  2. Listed buildings in Middleton, Greater Manchester - Wikipedia

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    Middleton is a town in the Metropolitan Borough of Rochdale, Greater Manchester, England, and it is unparished.The town and the surrounding countryside contain 45 listed buildings that are recorded in the National Heritage List for England.

  3. Portland stone - Wikipedia

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    The Cenotaph, in Whitehall, London, is made from Portland stone. Portland stone is a limestone geological formation (formally named the Portland Stone Formation [1]) dating to the Tithonian age of the Late Jurassic that is quarried on the Isle of Portland in Dorset, England. [1] The quarries are cut in beds of white-grey limestone separated by ...

  4. Bowers Quarry - Wikipedia

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    The quarry is operated by Albion Stone and became the site of the first Portland Stone mine. In October 2002 the firm successfully initiated Portland's first ever underground mining operation, which was a precursor to Jordans Mine, which would start in 2008. [1] It has also been the selected site for the planned Mass Extinction Memorial ...

  5. Alkrington - Wikipedia

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    Alkrington Garden Village is a suburban area of Middleton, in the Metropolitan Borough of Rochdale, Greater Manchester, England. [1] [2]Alkrington lies on the northern edge of the city of Manchester with the suburb of Blackley directly to the south.

  6. British quarrying and mining narrow-gauge railways - Wikipedia

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    Many of the cement works and their associated chalk pits had narrow gauge railways, particularly those in the South East of England. The Associated Portland Cement Manufacturers Ltd. (APCM, later Blue Circle Industries, and Lafarge) was the major producer of cement in the United Kingdom in the second half of the twentieth century and many of their plants used railways.

  7. Joseph Aspdin - Wikipedia

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    Portland stone was the most prestigious building stone in use in England at the time. The patent clearly does not describe the product recognised as Portland cement today. The product was aimed at the market for stuccos and architectural pre-cast mouldings, for which a fast-setting, low-strength cement was required (see cement).

  8. Does Charging Your Phone To 100% Ruin Your Battery? Here's ...

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    Keeping your phone plugged in once it hits a full charge and consistently charging it to 100% keeps the battery at a high voltage, which causes chemical aging in the product, said Dibakar Datta ...

  9. Portland Group (geology) - Wikipedia

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    The Portland Stone Formation is further divided into a lower Portland Chert Member and an upper Portland Freestone Member, both of which are limestones. The Portland Sand Formation is made up largely of dolomites but includes siltstones and fine-grained sandstones in its lower parts.