Sinc Harriet Waterfall
For scale, the iron grille is over a tunnel big enough to drive a small steam engine through.
When I first started exploring the quarry, only a year or two after it was closed, this tunnel went right through, and emerged by a little blast shelter hut, in which I found an extremely fine specimen of Pyrites, which I took to school. It was donated to the glass case of minerals and gems which was in the Geography department.
For all I know it's still there.
player.bfi.org.uk/free/film/watch-dinorwic-quarry-1963-on...
This film shows pretty much how the quarry looked when I ran wild in it as a teenager in the first few years when it shut down, before the auction and the scrapmen, and before the real destruction of the pumped storage scheme. Was it really necessary to destroy so much irreplaceable industrial archaeology to hollow out the mountain to dubious local benefit?
Sinc Harriet Waterfall
For scale, the iron grille is over a tunnel big enough to drive a small steam engine through.
When I first started exploring the quarry, only a year or two after it was closed, this tunnel went right through, and emerged by a little blast shelter hut, in which I found an extremely fine specimen of Pyrites, which I took to school. It was donated to the glass case of minerals and gems which was in the Geography department.
For all I know it's still there.
player.bfi.org.uk/free/film/watch-dinorwic-quarry-1963-on...
This film shows pretty much how the quarry looked when I ran wild in it as a teenager in the first few years when it shut down, before the auction and the scrapmen, and before the real destruction of the pumped storage scheme. Was it really necessary to destroy so much irreplaceable industrial archaeology to hollow out the mountain to dubious local benefit?