I wonder why, when they re-erected this building and the lift, they didn't erect it somewhere less level. So that the lift made a bit more sense! I don't mean at the edge of a 60 foot drop, but at least somewhere where there was a bit of a depression so the cage could be shown off the ground. Displayed as it is it makes no sense at all!

Photograph:

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I must say I agree with you, when I first saw it, it made no sense to me as an enthusiast of mining and quarrying methods. That is untill I looked at it for a few seconds. What the average tourist type visitor makes of it, God in Heaven knows!

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I agree.
Where did this particular lift come from?

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Hafod Owen, Dinorwic.

Does anybody know and understand the numbering system that was applied prior to dismantling and to aid re-assembly?
I can't make any sense of it at all!
Why was such a permanent type of paint used?

Hafod Owen, Dinorwic.

Hafod Owen was the area destroyed for the power station; lake level buildings, main entrance etc? It had a near vertical incline IIIC.

I guess their problem was Gilfach Ddu is pretty much flat, and so this was always going to be out of context. And if it was put anywhere else it'd either be:

- so far out that no tourist ever got to see it

- as happened to the one of the Anglesey Barracks that was restored, would have been stripped of it's slates (and in the case of Anglesey Barracks windows and door) by thieves and vandals

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Hafod Owen is the lowest area of the quarry furthest from Gilfach Ddu. The bit was located behind and below the bridge mentioned on here a while back. It is now under a few tons of rock from the power station cavern!

I take your point about Gilfach Ddu being mainly flat. However, as I said earlier, it wouldn't have needed to be on the edge of a 60 foot (typical gallery height) drop. Just somewhere not totally flat. The area between where it is located and the lake shore used to have more humps and depressions in it before it was "landscaped" for the sailing club etc. It would only have needed to be placed on a 5 foot hump next to a 5 foot depression and bingo a 10 foot "drop"!

I too have wondered about the stone numbering system, and the paint. In fact I want to know what the paint was they used. Little or no preparation, no primer, and still it is there over 20 years later! Must have been damned good paint!

Don't know about the paint - but it always surprised me that they had not done more with it as a display. Does anyone have a photo of the reconstructed interior ?

My photos of the bits many years ago are here, for anyone whose wondering what bits the discussion is about:
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Cheers

Grahami

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I use a titanium/spirit based paint for marking trees. I haven't any to hand at the moment but it is available from Robinson and Neal, High St. Bangor. If it is correctly applied it will last well over 20years and remain legible.
For shorter term retention, emulsion or acrylic are to be preferred, with little or no preparation on the area to be painted.
Because of the permanence of correctly applied titanium paint and the considerable difficulty of its removal it should only be used where this level of permanence is of prime importance!!