This photo shows Mr William Owen and Emma and George Earp, some of the last residents of the village in the late 1940s. Once the quarries closed in the 1940s, the villagers started moving away in search of new employment. Other than the steep and winding pathway known as "the screw" or corkscrew hill, there was no road access to the village and no electricity, running water or sewerage. By the 1970s the village was deserted and in ruins.