Can anyone tell me what this building is?
http://www.mine-explorer.co.uk/view_picture_hires.asp?id=247 

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Can anyone tell me what this building is?
http://www.mine-explorer.co.uk/view_picture_hires.asp?id=247 

It houses an electric generating turbine, I believe it was installed there in the 80's to power the adjacent saw table etc.
It sits in what appears to be an old water wheel pit on a timber framework, more or less complete but the the timber is in poor state these days, take care it you enter as its very unsteady

oh dear.... I did enter... but last year... Quite interesting however.

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Yeah it houses a small Pelton wheel, now stopped. The site its in is the old Cwmorthin London Mill, demolished in recent years.

pitty there is so much rubbish dumped in there...
Anyone got any idea what the strange chain mechanism is outside?

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Do you have a picture of it?

Do you have a picture of it?

I do somewhere, I will try and find it for you this week

No- think my dad has... I'll try and find it 😉

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Can be seen on the right:

http://www.mine-explorer.co.uk/view_picture_hires.asp?id=4964 

[tweak]Link fixed to make it clickable. - vanoord[/tweak]

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Thought I'd just post a query here, rather than interrupt the Llechwedd thread.
Does anyone know what McAlpines have done with the electric winder motor, controller and drums that were on show at Gloddfa Ganol ? Have they been scrapped ?
At the Office floor immediately below Gloddfa Ganol was the head of the "C Incline" which was where the drums and controller had come from. Is anything left of that ?

We had some fun getting the controller out of the C motor house - pulled it out through the door and it fell off the steps and cracked. Had to be tack-welded back together again for display.

Grahami

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Its not this one is it Grahami ? Probably not, this one is (was?) dumped at Llechwedd floor 2

[img]http://www.aditnow.co.uk/showimage?f=/community/Llechwedd-Slate-Mine-User-Album-Image-032/[/img]

I've uploaded some of my and the late Rodney Weaver's photos to the Oakeley archive album. They show the display winder adn its original location and the incredible 6-drum winder that used to be be there.

Grahami

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Thanks Graham, fantastic insight into Oakeley in the '60 to the '80s.

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Hello all

I'm new to the site but a friend of mine (Al) has visited before and has asked me to contact a couple of people. Miles and Vanoord are the people he mentioned, but anyone with info about Cwmorthin would be useful. We're hoping to visit this weekend...

Many thanks x

Hi Hannah :)

If you're in the Blaenau Ffestiniog area over the weekend, MerddinEmrys is going for an explore on Sunday and will welcome new faces: http://www.aditnow.co.uk/community/viewtopic.aspx?p=40732#msg40732 

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how do i get access to maenofferen?.i havent been since the 80s.there were trucks with slates in them and i have photos of a tunnel that was used by a train.a chap in blaenau has been there,rory trappe a photographer.im interested in photographing anything.i used to explore the quarries around blaenau as a child.thought id relive them a bit.

Heard a tale off a learned gentleman of a tunnel from Manod Quarry to Church Street in Blaenau.....:ohmygod::ohmygod::ohmygod:;D;D;D

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Heard a tale off a learned gentleman of a tunnel from Manod Quarry to Church Street in Blaenau.....:ohmygod::ohmygod::ohmygod:;D;D;D

I think I've heard the same story!

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I'm sure you have ;)

Hmmm, don't know how that post got there, I posted ............oops, yes I do :lol::lol: sorry 😞

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Earlier in this thread mention was made of the Holland workings in the Oakeley upper quarry, which I know very little about and I have a couple or more of questions: -

Are there any old plans which show the chambering and veins worked in the part of the upper quarry known as Hollands? The chambers here are reputed to have been wide by Oakeley/Cwmorthin standards, suggesting good rock, as has been mentioned previously.

I've heard something about these chambers being flooded. does anyone know if this is correct? Slightly surprised by this as I thought it was much too far up in the workings unless chambers/levels have been blocked or dammed. Maybe I'm wrong on this one.

Also while I'm on the topic of plans and history etc, have often wondered why chambering wasn't significantlyy developed off Leval Ffrench, as I thought part of it at least ran through the back vein. Was the slate at this point not considered of sufficient quality to be worth extracting? Was it too hard, or was there an intrusion of another rock type entirely in this area? The chamber (11E) where level Ffrench reaches Cwmorthin, appears quite well developed, although it. looks as if this chamber could have yielded a lot more: The slate slab (where the stone footholds have recently been installed) is very impressive, Wonder if it is actually as good as it looks to my untrained eye!

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