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Bit of a mixture of a site this one as it fits in to Tunnels, quarrys, industrial, Residential you name it the site has it. Fluffy was going on and on about this place, I think he said at one point
that "If you ain`t blown away by this place theres no hope for you" OK what ever time will tell.
The Nantlle valley is a line of open pit slate quarrys, all the pits are flooded and one of which is DEEP...
The quarry has been worked for 100`s of years, anyway blar blar lets have a quick bit of info on the deepest of the quarry pits, it`s call Dorothea.
We bumped in to a guys who was packing away his diving kit so I had to ask :=
Oi mate so how deep is it ?
In a Derbyshire accent comes the reply 183M
In a soft shandy drinking accent F*** me
just so you know this is a picture of the Tower 42 in london, it used to be the "Natwest tower"
if you were sat on the top you could dip your toes in the water yep it`s Fooooooooooooooookin deep.
So walking around the top area we came across all the old quarry buildings and the quarry owners house.
Wow baby - Mr Fluffy was not wrong, time to be blown away..
How about your own dog kennels built out of slate.
After a short walk we turned a corner and bingo - Tunnel goodness - get in there.
The site is full of narrow gauge railway tunnels, cart tunnels, passageways you name it they are everywhere.
Oh and this baby, Mr Fluffy thinks it`s called a "Flying Arch"
This shot is of one of the inclines from a top quarry down to the cutting and dressing floor.
Oh almost forgot to say there is also a steam beam engine pumping house, complete with it`s cast Iron beam and boilers.
One last picture, they say don`t shoot in to the sun and my reply is f--- off why the hell not, in the middle is a slate gate way and small path leading to another house.
Well congratulations on making it this far down, there is so much to see here you could spend and day and the next and the next and you still would not see everything
So Mr Fluffy concider me Blown away.
All comments are most welcome and as you might of gussed there are more pictures on my FlickR site, so if you want more bosh over to :-
https://www.flickr.com/photos/newage2/sets/72157648899956636/
Cheers Newage
Bit of a mixture of a site this one as it fits in to Tunnels, quarrys, industrial, Residential you name it the site has it. Fluffy was going on and on about this place, I think he said at one point
that "If you ain`t blown away by this place theres no hope for you" OK what ever time will tell.
The Nantlle valley is a line of open pit slate quarrys, all the pits are flooded and one of which is DEEP...
The quarry has been worked for 100`s of years, anyway blar blar lets have a quick bit of info on the deepest of the quarry pits, it`s call Dorothea.
We bumped in to a guys who was packing away his diving kit so I had to ask :=
Oi mate so how deep is it ?
In a Derbyshire accent comes the reply 183M
In a soft shandy drinking accent F*** me
just so you know this is a picture of the Tower 42 in london, it used to be the "Natwest tower"
if you were sat on the top you could dip your toes in the water yep it`s Fooooooooooooooookin deep.
So walking around the top area we came across all the old quarry buildings and the quarry owners house.
Wow baby - Mr Fluffy was not wrong, time to be blown away..
How about your own dog kennels built out of slate.
After a short walk we turned a corner and bingo - Tunnel goodness - get in there.
The site is full of narrow gauge railway tunnels, cart tunnels, passageways you name it they are everywhere.
Oh and this baby, Mr Fluffy thinks it`s called a "Flying Arch"
This shot is of one of the inclines from a top quarry down to the cutting and dressing floor.
Oh almost forgot to say there is also a steam beam engine pumping house, complete with it`s cast Iron beam and boilers.
One last picture, they say don`t shoot in to the sun and my reply is f--- off why the hell not, in the middle is a slate gate way and small path leading to another house.
Well congratulations on making it this far down, there is so much to see here you could spend and day and the next and the next and you still would not see everything
So Mr Fluffy concider me Blown away.
All comments are most welcome and as you might of gussed there are more pictures on my FlickR site, so if you want more bosh over to :-
https://www.flickr.com/photos/newage2/sets/72157648899956636/
Cheers Newage