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ICLOK
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15 years ago

Had a trip up there with Penmorfa... this place has easily got to be one of the most captivating Industrial Archeology locations in Britain 😮 🙂 ... http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=DH8xr-XZ0cw

Aaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaagh Creeper!!!!!

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sougher
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15 years ago

Very interesting, excellent photographs. Those round kilns - craftmanship at it's best.

Where did the clay come from for making the bricks? Not knowing anything about the area, were there clay pits locally?

Lister
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15 years ago

Nice video Mr Iclock, I really enjoyed my visit there a few years back! Did you get up the incline to the rear of the works? I wasent aware it was ther but you can see it from an aerial view.
.....Lister;~)

'Adventure is just bad planning' Roald Amundsen

ICLOK
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15 years ago

Sadly we ran out of time... of course!!... Mr Penmorfa showed me the incline down to the works but we simply had no time to get up to the drum house. The clay was mined from the cliff at the rear of the site and whilst very course (like a soft stone really) was probably ground up, the stone coming in via the incline.

Aaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaagh Creeper!!!!!

AndyC
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15 years ago

Although I did not spot it on my visit. I understand that the quarry was above the brickworks, with a gravity incline down to them.

Has the Penmorfa virus been sorted yet?

If so one of the microsites is dedicated to Porth Wen. amd lots of histore etc there.

Been injured while at work and are not to blame?

Get over it.

ICLOK
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15 years ago

Virus well sorted out and gone. I visited with Penmorfa, we had a great day.

The drum house is just over the ridge out of site.

Aaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaagh Creeper!!!!!

AndyC
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15 years ago

In that case it is clicky time:

http://www.penmorfa.com/porthwen/

Been injured while at work and are not to blame?

Get over it.

Monty Stubble
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15 years ago

Weirdly...the chief designer of the tiles was specially employed from Japan before the first world war. I often think what a culture shift that must have been. Hokkaido to a remote bay in North Wales (or maybe not).

The finest workers in stone are not copper or steel tools, but the gentle touches of air and water working at their leisure with a liberal allowance of time.
Henry David Thoreau

rockster
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15 years ago

Great video there ICLOk

I'd love to have a look around there some day.Seems quite intact boilers and all.Our house is built on top of an old brickworks and round and about I occasionally find bricks with the fingerprints set into them.Its an interesting link to the past.

Cheers rockster