Today's walk.

Ground clearance work continues at the mental.

The river is up after the rain.

 

Graig ddu quarry.....8.

Tramway cutting.
  

Still frost up here in the shade.
  

Graig ddu quarry.....7.

Probably a small mine up there.

 

Fence posts.

The tramway curves.

Looking across to the main dressing sheds.

  

Today's walk.

Starting to clear the grounds at the old Denbigh mental hospital.

  

Graig ddu quarry.....6.

Looking down the incline.

Another ruin.

  

Continuing along the tramway.

Today's walk.

Morning sky today. A frosty start.

     

Graig ddu quarry.....5.

Ruins.

  

Slate dressing shed.

    

Today's walk.

Off to work through the Ystrad woods. 

Denbigh shop window.

Not sure why but this doesn't seem to want to play.
 

  

Graig ddu quarry.....4.

View across the top of the valley.

  

Walking the old tramway.

  

Possibly the black powder store.

 

Graig ddu quarry.....3.

Tramway from the top of the incline.

  

Large quarry entrance.

  
Looking down the incline.

Steam engine house.

Today's walk.

Denbigh card shop.

Graig ddu quarry.....2.

Probably the first cable TV station in the UK.  Tv when the cabled down the valley to the villages below. When I first started to come up here the galvanised building was intact with some equipment. It has now of course been vandalised.

The way ahead.

   

Looking across to the waste levels.

 

Graig ddu quarry.

Black rock quarry.

Sunrise.

  

Welsh mountain sheep.

 

Today's walk.

Frosty start.

  

Sunrise.

 

Cwmorthin. October 2018....32.

That's it, another walk completed.

The weir at the end of the lake.

  

Back at the start. Time to go the the Lakeside cafe for beans on toast and a mug of tea.

Today's walk.

A 3 second exposure from the Ystrad bridge.

Cwmorthin. October 2018....31.

Water lillies.

  

Buildings at the end of the lake.

  

Barracks.

 

Today's walk.

"Off to work". 3 second shutter, Ystrad bridge.

Cwmorthin. October 2018....31.

Coming back down to the dressing sheds.

  

The tramway crosses the track in front of the chapel.

 

Looking across the lake to the waste levels.

 

Today's walk.

Old oak at the crossroads.

  

Cwmorthin. October 2018....30.

Looking down on the miners chapel.

  

View over the lake.

  

Anothe ruin.