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Vanoord
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5 years ago

Preview of this evening's 'Hidden Wales' with Will Millard and some bloke who seems strangely familiar!

https://twitter.com/BBCWales/status/1309387660939665410?s=20

I'm slightly perplexed by the '1858' scrawled in the mud, as the Cwm-Orthin Slate Company wasn't established until 1861 and there wasn't much underground work done prior to then that hasn't been lost collapses or un-topping... :bored:

Anyway, catch the famous mine explorer on BBC1 at 7.30pm tonight or no doubt on iPlayer later.

Hello again darkness, my old friend...

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ChrisJC
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5 years ago

I think you need to amend the Freudian slip - spelling bloke as block!

Chris.

Vanoord
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5 years ago

"ChrisJC" wrote:
I think you need to amend the Freudian slip - spelling bloke as block!

Chris.

I don't know whether he'd take that as a compliment or an insult! 😮

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stevem
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5 years ago

Glad to see the ever increasing things ‘of death’

I think the date isn’t a date. Just upside down graffiti by the Botanical Society of Britain and Ireland. 😉

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screws up your day and may their arms be too short to scratch.

John_Smith
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5 years ago

The laser scan of Wrysgan was quite impressive.

Anyone know who collected the data???

I'd love to get in touch and have a play.

TheBogieman
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5 years ago

Very commendable performances by Pred, Miles and David Gwyn. Far too short a programme for the subject matter but I suppose enough for Joe Public to take in.

Explorans ad inferos

alex17595
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5 years ago

Interesting program, it seems I manage to butcher the pronunciation of every Welsh place/object.

Blober
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5 years ago

"John_Smith" wrote:
The laser scan of Wrysgan was quite impressive.

Anyone know who collected the data???

I'd love to get in touch and have a play.

https://www.facebook.com/terradat/

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John_Smith
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5 years ago

"Blober" wrote:

"John_Smith" wrote:
The laser scan of Wrysgan was quite impressive.

Anyone know who collected the data???

I'd love to get in touch and have a play.

https://www.facebook.com/terradat/

Exactly what I was worried about unfortunately. Commercial companies will rarely give out their data. Thanks anyway!

PHolman
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5 years ago

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The laser scan of Wrysgan was quite impressive.
Anyone know who collected the data???
.....
.Commercial companies will rarely give out their data..

I wonder why a commercial company would scan Wrysgan ?
Hardly an easy place to go to for just a practice session.
Is someone there an enthusiast or is it a commercial venture ?

John Griffiths
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5 years ago

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The information on TerraDat's facebook page suggests that they were commissioned by the BBC to scan Wrysgan and Mynydd Parys for the Will Millard programmes.

PHolman
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5 years ago

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"John Griffiths" wrote:
The information on TerraDat's facebook page suggests that they were commissioned by the BBC to scan Wrysgan and Mynydd Parys for the Will Millard programmes.

Thanks.
I wonder how much that cost ? The Wrysgan scan was only on air for half a minute. They didn't really make much of it either.
Other programmes that used that technology usually spend more time explaining and interpreting the scans.
https://www.bbc.co.uk/programmes/p02s75tb (it's even a quarry scan too 😉 )

TwllMawr
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5 years ago

#13

Perhaps the BBC intend to make a 2 hour documentary about the Wormhole in there?

TheBogieman
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5 years ago

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Ha, I remember the night we went up to try and remove the 'hanging death' block of slate from above the worm hole. We drilled and chipped bits off then levered it and measured it and said right, one more heave and it should slip through. We levered it and it started to go then kindly tipped and filled the worm hole completely! Apparently it did free itself on it's own a week or two later without giving someone a headache...
The story of the wormhole and the Thursday Nighters would have made for some 'interesting' TV... :lol:

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ChrisBones69
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4 years ago

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Yes, the writing of 1858 was as fresh as yesterday, probably made on the spot with a finger, and the "off limits, dangerous parts", wasn't even cwmorthin, i smiled to myself because visited the "most dangerous place i'm going to take you" part of Oa..kwmorthin. They should make a programme just with Pred, hii s knowledge is amazing, and would get much better mines too ??.

Pete K
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4 years ago

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Problem is that when you're wanting to work in a mine (even as a TV crew) it needs to be either a 'working mine' or an abandoned one with a current mine inspection and access agreement. So yeah, there are other lovely mines in that area, but in order to take a film crew in one, it had to be somewhere like Cwmorthin to be actually legal.

I've seen a few moans about the 'fake' date on FB. I've seen plenty of ancient inscriptions, footprints and fingerprints in mines across the UK that look as good as the day they were made. Believe whatever you choose, but I know the all the guys involved in this and they would not be interested in TV fakery, it's real. I know that place almost better than my own town, and have found similar stuff myself in ground not previously accessible before we got there.
I certainly agree we need a Pred series though.

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ChrisBones69
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4 years ago

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I understand it has to be a safish environment for a film crew, but saying that when Miles took Will around to the "most dangerous part" they're not actually in Cwmorthin at all, they were in oa....... And it is bad, and following that tunnell there's an even dodgier pipe traverse across chamber with a meter traverse with big drop and crumbling quartz as footholds just to get to the pipe itself, (which is held in place by rusty chains and rope). Its the only way on. Its somewhere you wouldn't want to take a film crew, unless Pred was a hidden cameraman. I think clever editing was involved or camera and sound man with srt skills. Also editing to not let people really know where they were. I can't upload photos for some reason of exact place in oakorthin ??