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dwarrowdelf
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13 years ago

#21

Visited Wrysgan mid October 2011 and took some photos in and around the quarry...

Took pics which included the following artifacts. Are they all still accounted for?

🔗Wrysgan-Slate-Mine-User-Album-Image-68487[linkphoto]Wrysgan-Slate-Mine-User-Album-Image-68487[/linkphoto][/link]

🔗Wrysgan-Slate-Mine-User-Album-Image-68486[linkphoto]Wrysgan-Slate-Mine-User-Album-Image-68486[/linkphoto][/link]

🔗Wrysgan-Slate-Mine-User-Album-Image-68510[linkphoto]Wrysgan-Slate-Mine-User-Album-Image-68510[/linkphoto][/link]

So sad these interesting items are disappearing from what should be regarded by all as valuable site of past industry! 😞

'I wonder how many breakfasts, and other meals we have missed inside that nasty clockless, timeless hole?'

'The Hobbit'
J R R Tolkien.

rodel
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13 years ago

#22

Just had a quick look on the Wrysgan user album and there is a photo(68486) uploaded by dwarrowdelf on the 31st of October and there is no sign of it then so maybe it's been gone a while and no one has noticed ?

dwarrowdelf
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13 years ago

#23

Does anyone have a clear photo of this artifact they can post so we all know what it looks like?

'I wonder how many breakfasts, and other meals we have missed inside that nasty clockless, timeless hole?'

'The Hobbit'
J R R Tolkien.

mistericeman
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13 years ago

#24

Is it this ????

http://i93.photobucket.com/albums/l72/spellcaster69/161207/2008_0824eventofthedecade0049.jpg

http://i93.photobucket.com/albums/l72/spellcaster69/161207/2008_0824eventofthedecade0048.jpg

????

martymarty
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13 years ago

#25

page not found

nid oes bradwr yn y ty hwn

mistericeman
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13 years ago

#26

Try that now with the direct links ...

gawd knows why but my pictures never work over here ???

grahami
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13 years ago

#27

This is what used to be there:

🔗Wrysgan-Slate-Mine-Archive-Album-Image-003[linkphoto]Wrysgan-Slate-Mine-Archive-Album-Image-003[/linkphoto][/link]
🔗Wrysgan-Slate-Mine-Archive-Album-Image-005[linkphoto]Wrysgan-Slate-Mine-Archive-Album-Image-005[/linkphoto][/link]
🔗Wrysgan-Slate-Mine-Archive-Album-Image-002[linkphoto]Wrysgan-Slate-Mine-Archive-Album-Image-002[/linkphoto][/link]
oops - missed this one:
🔗Wrysgan-Slate-Mine-Archive-Album-Image-001[linkphoto]Wrysgan-Slate-Mine-Archive-Album-Image-001[/linkphoto][/link]
Cheers

Grahami

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skimble
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13 years ago

#28

I was last up there on 21 August 2011 and don't recall seeing the cylinder block then.

Who owns the missing items, and does the owner have any legal obligation to leave them in situ?

JohnnearCfon
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13 years ago

#29

Presumably the current land owner, by default, now owns them.

No, he would have no obligation to leave them in situ (unless part of a listed structure or ancient monument).

I cannot honestly see it being the land owner though, why bother?

Strangely Brown
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13 years ago

#30

Thanks Dwarrodwelf, Yep it's not in your pictures but should be. Noticed that in the Photobucket pic found by mistericeman that one of the piston rods has been sawn off since the Geograph pictures in 1990. Won't be scrap, at least not destined for a Bessemer converter, far easyier takings and the rest of it has been left. There are a few yards that recognise the value of historic articals, I've collected a traction engine front axle from one. Someone has collected it for themselves.
Might nip up and have another look round.

Light thinks it travels faster than anything but it is wrong. No matter how fast light travels, it finds the darkness has always got there first, and is waiting for it.

davel
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13 years ago

#31

I remember that the cylinder block was in situ in the frames as per Graham's photos when I went up the exit incline 12th September 2007 (as it happens only a couple of days before Graham uploaded his photos).

I was next there in March 2009 and again in March 2010, but I'm afraid I can't remember the condition of the engine (or else I didn't look at it) on those occasions.

Dave

AndyC
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13 years ago

#32

I have just checked my photos from when I visited - 5 April 2009. The pistons were there, but on the ground rather than up in the frame as above.

Just uploaded photos:

🔗Wrysgan-Slate-Mine-User-Album-Image-71987[linkphoto]Wrysgan-Slate-Mine-User-Album-Image-71987[/linkphoto][/link]

🔗Wrysgan-Slate-Mine-User-Album-Image-71989[linkphoto]Wrysgan-Slate-Mine-User-Album-Image-71989[/linkphoto][/link]

Been injured while at work and are not to blame?

Get over it.

JohnnearCfon
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13 years ago

#33

I have suggested to Owain that, as it was he who discovered it missing on Sunday, it might be an idea for him to report it to N Wales police, pointing out the previous "collector orientated" theft from Maen Offeren.

Although different modus operandi, I am beginning to wonder if it was the same group carrying out both thefts.

grahami
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13 years ago

#34

I feel I ought to point out that my photos were probably taken in the late 1970s - early 1980s! I can't find an exact year at the moment.

Grahami

The map is the territory - especially in chain scale.