Prospecting in Penmaenmawr · AditNow Community

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Digit
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16 years ago

Whilst looking for something unrelated to exploration, quarrying, mining and North Wales Google offered me the following interesting page:-

http://www.penmaenmawr.com/historyQuarry.html

which may be of interest to any N Wales members who have not previously read it. I'm referring to the section entitled Penmaenmawr Historical Society Booklet 1978 in particular. The photo of the quarry is also superb. Thank you Google, when we/you get it wrong it can be interesting.

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grahami
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16 years ago

The photo is one of the series taken by/for the Cambridge University Aerial survey and often reproduced in geological publications. They also took shots of Penrhyn Quarry, Dinorwic, Nantlle, Blaenau Ffestiniog etc. Excellent quality.

Grahami

The map is the territory - especially in chain scale.

Tamarmole
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16 years ago

Digressing slightly - what's the state of play with the De Winton frames up in the quarry?

ICLOK
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16 years ago

Very rough... on last visit the top plates were starting to go but the main frame plates were passable.... boiler... don't go there!

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