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Hand Crane
A hand crane stood near this point and was to used to load Portland stone blocks onto the Old Merchants Railway. From 1826 to 1939 horse-drawn trucks took the stone from here around Verne Hill down to Castletown Pier for shipping to create some of the world's finest buildings.

Hand crane

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