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The Stonebreakers Hut or Black Hut is an acute left-hand corner on the primary A18 road in the parish of Lonan in the Isle of Man.
The Stonebreakers Hut is situated between the 29th Milestone and 30th Milestone on the Snaefell Mountain Course on the primary A18 Mountain Road and was part of the Highland Course and Four Inch Course used for the Gordon Bennett Trial and Tourist Trophy automobile car races held in the Isle of Man between 1904 and 1911.
During the first lap of the 1934 Isle of Man TT Lightweight Race, Syd Crabtree, the winner of the 1929 Lightweight Race crashed at the Stonebreakers Hut on the Mountain Section and was killed.
This section of road including the Verandah Bends was subject to road-widing and re-profiled during the winter of 1970/1971 road-widening occurs on the A18 Mountain Road at Verandah and Stonebreakers Hut by cutting into the hillside.[1][2] The two building structures that were owned by the Isle of Man Highway Board were removed in the 1980s but the corner retained the name on the Mountain Course of the Stonebreakers Hut.
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- ^ Isle of Man Weekly Times pp1 dated 6th January 1971
- ^ TT News 2006 Preview Edition pp2
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