According to mendip cave registry
http://www.mcra.org.uk/registry/sitedetails.php?id=1664 Wansdyke bought the quarry in 1996. Restore took over Wansdyke in 2008(?)
http://www.restore.co.uk/News/NewWebsite/index.asp They also bought 19/20 district at a later date as they felt the need to extend their perimeter (probably after intrusions by urban explorers). Soon after this they capped all the air shafts.
The restore blog site still claims it as their own on the 13th April
http://www.restoreblog.co.uk/ They use the site for secure storage.
For background history there is a good article here
http://www.nettleden.com/articles/monkton-farleigh-history/ and there is a timeline
http://www.darkplaces.co.uk/wiki/MonktonFarleighQuarry On friday night they were still in business when we left our cars in the laybye
I am not sure what price they paid - perhaps their company records reported the purchase when they were Wansdyke.
But its worth is determined by how they can use it to make money and probably also how much they value denying the site to potential competitors.
Here is the blog entry
APR 19
2013
ARCHIVING
Eddie Murphy & Restore storage - it's deep !
Written by: David C. English
For me the first ‘Beverley Hills Cop’ film was highly amusing, who remembers the Eddie Murphy line “I have to go deep undercover. I’m undercover deep now, this is deep….” There the similarity ends, because document management is considered an important subject, an imperative; anyhow today we have 21 visitors at our deep storage site in Monkton Farleigh one of Restore’s archive storage and document management centres.
Apart from Monkton Farleigh being highly secure it has a unique war time heritage. A similar secure environment can also be found in Restore’s Upper Heyford site (exemplary PD5454 conditions), there NATO once had nuclear bombers; or where we house on-line data in Kent, all three have military connections, and provide ideal ultra-secure conditions for records management and cloud hosting.
Archives to manage, need to review and interested in going ‘deep under-cover’? then give me a call, I can’t promise a shoot-out at the end, however I can show you a practical approach to records management and think you will want to come back again….unlike Beverly Hills Cop 2…which in my personal opinion was not as deep (disagree ?)…got me thinking now about better film sequels
Caver turned quarry explorer