History

Quarrying began on the site of today's quarry in the middle of the 19th Century on a small-scale hand extraction basis.

Three more quarries were opened in the local area in the early 20th Century to provide stone for the burgeoning road-building programme. Larger-scale quarrying on our site began in 1928 by F. Flowers & Sons, the stone initially being used in their lime works located close to today’s quarry entrance.

In 1930, ownership was passed to one of Francis Flowers’s primary customers, Blanchard & Burgess, a Builders Merchant from Poole. John Yeoman was in charge in the 1950s before the quarry operation passed to City Sand and Gravel, who continued stone production until the early 1960s. When City Sand and Gravel ran into difficulty in 1962, Sidney Morris, a Chilthorne Domer-based construction material producer and customer of City, purchased the quarry and ran it in conjunction with his son-in-law George Perry. The emerging company was named Morris & Perry.

S Morris remains our sister company and today produce concrete blocks and screed at Tout Quarry Charlton Adam and Ready Mix Concrete at S. Morris plants in Yeovil, Taunton and Amesbury. The distinctive green and yellow livery was introduced to both companies in 1975.

From 1994 ownership of both companies transferred solely to Sidney Morris’s daughter’s family and is now managed by his grandson, Brian Perry.