Pen isa'r Nant, East. User Album (album)

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Dwr
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16 years ago

Is it ? ? ? I hope it is of some use to someone. . . . :confused:

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Gwyn
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16 years ago

I see what you mean! Tantalising! Thank you.
Have you any history or provenance for the photograph?
Why do you think that it might be here?
Has anybody on the forum any idea what the "kit" is behind the men? Opinions and ideas, please.
I'll take a walk in the next few days and see if the tree pattern and sky-line correspond.

Dwr
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16 years ago

I had the picture of Roy Ostle who lived at Plas Pen Isa'r Nant and he said it was here.

Gwyn
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16 years ago

In which case it is! That was some time ago!
The wall coping in the foreground is a tell-tale. I had wondered how to reproduce the view without getting flattened by traffic on the A5!
I deduce that the equipment could well be some form of stone crushing/grading for road repairs. I guess the picture was taken, say, 1925. When you mentioned a sorting table I was thinking more of an application to the copper or arsenic workings in the area, which I don't think this is.
Give me a PM, perhaps we could meet and check it out on site, you can stop the traffic while I take the picture!

Dwr
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16 years ago

I have no access to PM , what if I get run over???

Wormster
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16 years ago

"Dwr" wrote:
what if I get run over???

DARWIN......................................... :oops:

Better to regret something you have done - than to regret something you have not done.

Gwyn
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16 years ago

Hi Wormster, how's tricks? Any plans for a visit?
Darwin indeed! An interesting and rather apposite comment considering Darwin's visits to the area, although I don't think he was studying "road-kill"! It's interesting to speculate as to whether he visited Penrhyn, since he was studying the geology of the area.
Anyway, I went up the Nant earlier and can confirm beyond doubt that Dwr's picture is of the above. I've uploaded a picture into the album.
Have you any more interesting little gems like this, Dwr?

Vanoord
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16 years ago

"Dwr" wrote:
I have no access to PM , what if I get run over???

[mod]PM access activated :)[/mod]

Hello again darkness, my old friend...

Dwr
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16 years ago

Hi Gwyn,
I am so glad that it was , if you want a better copy then you are more than welcome. Actualy the photo is in fact a post card, I will keep on looking through my stuff and I am bound to find something of interest for you.
I do have over 300 old post cards of the nant and Bethesda and there is a CD with a load of pics of Pantdreiniog on the way to me....You are most welcome to view them...
Hope to bump into you again one day. 🙂 🙂 🙂

Gwyn
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16 years ago

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Great, thanks very much, Dwr. Only too glad to have been able to help.
When you get the pictures of Pant Dreiniog it would be much appreciated, not only by myself, if you could put some into the album; both archive and user are empty. I assume that your pictures will be archive. I'll be only too happy to then set about trying to re-take/simulate the same views, a sort of compare and contrast. Present day photographs of the site are pretty meaningless without the historical context, indeed some might find it hard to realise that there was a quarry there, as it has been so effectively obliterated, sorry, landscaped.
Yes, the rock fall at Penrhyn was quite spectacular; I thought it might happen. I'll send you a PM.