Llanddulas Jetty - March 2010 -

The Llanddulas Jetty is located off the seafront at Llanddulas, Conwy County, North Wales. There are two jetties both used for loading crushed limestone (that is quarried in the Llanddulas Quarries) onto boats for export to various destinations

after the very dodgy access onto this jetty i made my way down very slowly but surely but 3/4 of the way later i noticed the hand rails and side supports were non existent anymore...

now faced with the task of carrying on or turning back i crouched down and got under the conveyor belt...this decision wasnt going to be easy

anyway after a few minutes i stood the wind was picking up now and it was raining would i either get blown off or fall through in the drink

sod it ill carry on...

about 2 metres down the floor started to get really bad with wooden beams creaking and some not even bolted on the decision was made to turn back and go explore the silo and get out of the rain even if i had a life jacket on id prob still have turned back

id highly recommend a visit to this place as its bloody huge but people be very very carefull on this thing

ill let my pics do the talking..

thanks to kevsy21 for watching my arse on this one..






here we go...

nearing the halfway point...

up the stairs to kick about 50 pigeons out of the hut..

carefully does it throught the hut...

phew the stairs wobble a bit id better just step over this hole

out of the wind and rain for a minute to gather my thoughts (clock the floor)

a litle bit further down this was the point were i wasnt going any further the end just near

looking back after climbing up onto the main conveyor lines



















view from under the jetty



this led to the room above the hoppers i didnt fancy my chances...

not being one to be beaten by this jetty i fancied another crack at it so met up with the cat crept in at gwrych castle and away we went

going off my last report i thought it was 3/4 of the way i got however it wasnt more like half way

theres a control room for the side conveyors and then a bit past that your at the end with what i like to call a brucie bonus...a little hatch at the end which led to a sort of viewing platform and right under the jetty itself

again as before stepping lightly was the way forward down here it surprisingly was ok after we got past the control room but before that made for some dodgy moves and trying not to look down through the holes was quite hard

explored with the cat crept in

starting off where i left last time...well just before to be honest

a side conveyor..

the control room for the 2 conveyors..







looking back from the control room steps

coming up near the end

finally at the end...




brucie bonus a ladder!!!

down we go..

looking back from underneath..



looking back from the very end..