Cwmorthin July 2019.....12.

Boathouse.

  

Mine entrance.

  

Water lilies.

 

Walk to Llynau Gamallt.....4.

Rusted water pipe.

  

Large mine entrance.

  

Two further entrances or possibly for ventilation.

 

Graig ddu quarry.....23.

Hole in the ground, once the way to work for some.

   

View over the ruins.

  

Welsh mountain sheep. You have to be tough to survive up here.

 

Graig ddu quarry.....15.

The way to work, far corner!

  

Mine entrance close up.

  

Only workers here these days.

 

Walk to the Stwlan dam....29.

Road drainage channel.

  

Slate mine entrance. Once again a grill covers the entrance.

 

Cwm Penmachno to Rhiw-bach quarry.....35.

Over the fence is the entrance to another mine, quite well hidden.

Mother natures sculpture.

  

Another small quarry in the distance.

  

Cwmorthin valley after recent heavy rain......14.

Slate bridge in the valley below.

  

Tempory falls.

  

View through the tramway cutting.

  

A mass of water exiting the old mine entrance in the background.

 

Walk to Llyn Bowydd and quarry, September 2014......18.

Exiting from the tunnel.

 

The second quarry.

  

Twin mine entrances.

 

Some equipment remains.

  

Mine entrance close up.

 

Probably an old lorry engine and gearbox.

 

Walk to Llyn Bowydd and quarry, September 2014......3.

Looking down on the dressing shed. This one is unusual as it has a large channel running along one of it's sides, I have no information on it's purpose.

 

Small ruin.

 

Looking down the incline.
 

Mine entrance.
 

Coming up to the cutting.
 

Cwmorthin Valley, North Wales. 6

The moon in the early afternoon. 

Some remains of the tramway rail sleepers can still be seen.

A tramway cutting.

Entrance to the slate cutting shed.

Green slime!

Entrance to the old mine.

What remains of the underside of a slate wagon.