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Mynydd Gwefru is the Welsh name for Electric Mountain
When I saw this downpipe in the middle of the quarry, my thoughts went straight to the immense tunnel system and gigantic tubes deep inside this Mount Elidir Fawr.
After two centuries of mass excavation Dinorwic Quarry came to an end. When the mine was closed in 1969, at least 350 men were out of work and there were big changes to a way of life of a community that had existed since the 1780s. Elidir mountain seemed to provide an ideal location for a hydro-electricity station. The miners were asked to pave the way for the engineering marvel Dinorwic Power Station. This hydroelectric system was fully commissioned in 1984. It includes 16km of underground tunnels, deep below Elidir. Six huge generating units stand in the largest man-made cavern in Europe, which is big enough to contain St. Paul’s Cathedral, the treasure of London.
The power is generated by the force of water falling from Marchlyn Mawr reservoir, a high level lake in Snowdonia behind Elidir Fawr. The water turns turbines before it flows into Llyn Peris, which was modified for its new function. When demand for electricity is low, usually at night, water is pumped back up to Marchlyn Mawr – where it will be ready to generate electricity again when required, at peak moments.
Part of the series "Welsh slate quarries":
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A street sign that has been removed and put inside a building side. It amuses me that it is "standing" or leaning nonchalantly now against the fence.
Hanover, Germany
Designed by Karl Siebrecht in 1911, this building used to house the Bahlsen factory that produced biscuits well into the 1980s.
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Taken from the car park by Bookham Grove House ( see pic in the first comment box ) -- if you click on the picture of the big house you will find plenty of information on Grove House !
What we have here though is in the bottom left you can see the old stables that for some time housed the library . Now though the long low bbuilding of the old stables is now used by a firm of driving instructors for HGVs and PSVs - recently a double decker bus has been blocking this shot as it has been parked in the narrowest of places between the gutter of the old stables and the trees .
The higher roofline with the cupola type structure are the old coach houses now turned into private cottages .
Sunbeams reflected by glass windows onto a brick wall in shadow across a little lane off North Terrace.
Inspired by Jose Luise Cosme Giral, whose pictures I really like, (www.flickr.com/photos/miravalles/) - a drainpipe I photographed in Calahorra, Rioja, last summer.
Healthy green leafy vine covering the metal grill wall of the parking station at the Chowrasta Market in Georgetown, Penang, that provides much needed cool refreshing shade from the scorching sun.
Acid lime green complement the crimson red of the tangential walls at the Harbour Town shopping centre.
Part of " The Hand's that built the Castle " sculpture installations, created on this down-pipe at Caernarfon Castle.
Shot taken for Saturday Self Challenge 18/09/2021 -
Half & Half or a picture of 2 halves .
At first I thought the idea was literally to take a shot of 2 halves of something , eg cut an apple or a lettuce in half and take the shot of the resulting 2 pieces - think this not the what is meant so much after seeing the examples and I think the idea is to get a scene / shot that could be almost two subjects with a dividing line down the centre . One idea was to stand by a river/canal and capture something reflecting in the water with a horizontal division - but did not go anywhere like that this week . Back to basics and a wander around Bookham Church threw up a few possibles , one being the porch entrance one side and a sweeping path on the other but it did not work as the roof overhang encroached into the other half .
So , for this shot we have on the left half of my shot the eastern end of the church , think it is the chancel . On the right we are outside in the graveyard and with tight cropping to the roof line and the church at ground level I hope I have created the two halves required .
Note I called the graveyard a graveyard and not cemetery or churchyard but graveyard because this fits with my sight & sound of Ozzy singing of a place now that also harks back to early early Sabbath !!
An afternoon walk in a different direction yielded this fascinating laneway down to a carpark. I'll be back to check out the carpark another day.
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Sunshine has a few spots tucked away that need to be walked to to discover. This little spot outdoors is called Macdonald Lane.
[The exif data is wrong on this file, I was using a borrowed camera and the time was set incorrectly]
One of several projects, that explore photography as evidence amongst other ideas.
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