n response to a few queries about the Delph facilities, we`ve put a few pictures on a separate page. Hope it helps a bit, we`ll add and amend when necessary as work continues. Eccleston Delph has been known as the Eccy Delph, or Hurst House Delph for the last century, and was mined by 12 local Quarrymen producing stone for Blackpool Promenade and for thin slates to cover the local barns and roofs. The Family of ``Hurst`` who originally owned and worked the Quarry, were well known in the area as Mr Hurst was Chairman of the Parish Council of Heskin for 20 years. Some time later it also became known as Marsden`s Quarry, although that reference is a little uncertain.