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Llechwedd Archive Album

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Greaves wharf 21/06/05: narrow gauge tracks on wharf leading to crane. (Llechwedd-Slate-Mine-Archive-Album-Image-044)
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Greaves wharf 21/06/05: Powe station to left background, weighbridge to right in foreground. Water tank above wagon - for shunting loco?? Tunnel under the road in background behind wagon leads to incline foot for access to quarry. (Llechwedd-Slate-Mine-Archive-Album-Image-043)
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Greaves wharf 21/06/05: Crane in original position on dock. Weighbridge to right of crane. (Llechwedd-Slate-Mine-Archive-Album-Image-042)
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Greaves wharf 21/08/05: General view of wharf site. Large building in background is hydro power station. Old road retaining wall to right. (Llechwedd-Slate-Mine-Archive-Album-Image-041)
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Original Trolley Loco on Floor 7 Ca.1920's: From an article on electricity in the Slate Industry. (Llechwedd-Slate-Mine-Archive-Album-Image-036)
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Deep Mine Tour 1980's: Beware - slippery when wet! (Llechwedd-Slate-Mine-Archive-Album-Image-034)
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Deep Mine Tour 1980's: In the rain - and the tourists are greatful for the shelter! (Llechwedd-Slate-Mine-Archive-Album-Image-033)
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Deep Mine Tour 1980's: The headgear from the tip, soon after opening. (Llechwedd-Slate-Mine-Archive-Album-Image-032)
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Deep Mine Tour 1980's: The Head of incline soon after opening. (Llechwedd-Slate-Mine-Archive-Album-Image-031)
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The old winch incline 1975: This was the state of the incline immediately in front of the Quarry Tours floor 2 mill - it became the site of the Deep Mine incline. (Llechwedd-Slate-Mine-Archive-Album-Image-030)
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The floor 7-5 gravity drumhouse - 1980's: I used to shoot in both mono and colour. Here's the old gravity drumhouse in mono, showing rather more of the remains of the blondin carriage and an anchor or two. (Llechwedd-Slate-Mine-Archive-Album-Image-029)
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Olwyn Goch - wheelpit - 1980's: A closer view of the ancient Olwyn Goch wheelpit. I never went any closer, having a suspicion that the state of ground near the shaft might be dubious.... (Llechwedd-Slate-Mine-Archive-Album-Image-028)
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The old tunnel sluice - 1980's: This was the point at which the infant Afon Barlwyd was diverted into the Cribau tunnels to emerge as the torrent which visitors cross to reach the Quarry Tours site. (Llechwedd-Slate-Mine-Archive-Album-Image-027)
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The site of Olwyn Goch 1980's -2: A slightly different angle of the site of the wheel. (Llechwedd-Slate-Mine-Archive-Album-Image-026)
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The site of Olwyn Goch - 1980's: The big wheelpit to the right of the tip is the site of Olwyn Goch - the great waterwheel seen in many Victorian photos. It both pumped and wound in the Sinc Y Mynydd part of the quarry via a shaft which descended to floor 2 from a site just about the right edge of the frame. (Llechwedd-Slate-Mine-Archive-Album-Image-025)
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View to Floor 7, 1980's: The Robey Drumhouse and the extensive floor 5 mills are on the right. (Llechwedd-Slate-Mine-Archive-Album-Image-024)
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The Ropeway tip 1980's: The winch hut sits on the end of the tip which was created by the aerial ropeway between the 1930's and early 1950's when the tip got so high that the ropeway carriage could not traverse the cable anymore with the tipping bucket beneath it. (Llechwedd-Slate-Mine-Archive-Album-Image-023)
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Floor 7 mills from the North 1975 (Llechwedd-Slate-Mine-Archive-Album-Image-022)
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Open pit floor 7 to floor 5 and below 1975: At least half of this pit had been filled at various ages with tipped rubbish. Retianing walls to the west kept the incline route up from floor 2 open. (Llechwedd-Slate-Mine-Archive-Album-Image-021)
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Old Drumhouse - floor 8 - 1975: A curious drumhouse, the incline almost untraceable in the boggy ground. (Llechwedd-Slate-Mine-Archive-Album-Image-020)
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Floor 7 mills 1975: The floor 7 adit was just off the picture to the left. (Llechwedd-Slate-Mine-Archive-Album-Image-019)
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Floor 7 Adit 1975: This brought slabs from the upper workings to the mill - but not for many years! (Llechwedd-Slate-Mine-Archive-Album-Image-018)
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Old drumhouse - 1975: AN older view of the floor 7-5 gravity incline, with the electric incline still in work in the distance, floor 7 mill to the left. (Llechwedd-Slate-Mine-Archive-Album-Image-017)
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Ruins of old floor 7-5 incline 1980's: This gravity incline dates from the times before the floor 7 mill, when all slabs won had to be lowered to floors 6 and 5 for processing. Lying around it in the 1980's were the remains of the bogies of the Henderson Aerial Ropeway. (Llechwedd-Slate-Mine-Archive-Album-Image-016)
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Floor 7 incline in the 1980's: Evening sun lights up the ruins of the floor 7 drumhouse - reputedly destroyed by a fire. (Llechwedd-Slate-Mine-Archive-Album-Image-015)
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Old Incline to daylight and floor 7 1980's: Another view looking from the end of the Miner's Tramway up the incline towards floors 5 and 7. (Llechwedd-Slate-Mine-Archive-Album-Image-014)
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Miner's Tramway End 1980's: The tour ended here, at the foot of the electrified incline up to floor 7 - though the lower part of it had long been abandoned, and only the section between floor 5 and 7 was used. (Llechwedd-Slate-Mine-Archive-Album-Image-013)
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Floor 7-5 Incline foot 1970's: Electric trolley locos picked up the wagons from the foot of the incline and worked them through the tunnel to the floor 5 mills. (Llechwedd-Slate-Mine-Archive-Album-Image-012)
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The Floor 7 Mill in the 1970's: Seen from Cribau, with the Floor 7 incline still with ropes on. It was converted from a water balance incline which lifted from floor 2 (the
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Quarry Tours Floor 2 - 1970's: Taken from the Gloddfa Ganol side, you can see the winch hut at the top of the old incline which was turned into the deep mine tour. (Llechwedd-Slate-Mine-Archive-Album-Image-010)
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Quarry Tours - floor 2 - 1970's: An early view from Cribau, when the only tour was the Miner's Tramway. The site of the
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Inclen Bon (Robey Incline) 1970's-80's: Taken from Cribau, this view shows the exposed extent of the
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Crane: Prior to the recent road works (Llechwedd-Slate-Mine-Archive-Album-Image-007)
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Llechwedd Electric Winder: Sadly this now belongs in the archive section.... (Llechwedd-Slate-Mine-Archive-Album-Image-006)
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Pay day at Llechwedd Fl.5? Date unknown (Llechwedd-Slate-Mine-Archive-Album-Image-005)
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Llechwedd fl.5 1978: from left- Now(forklift driver), Robert Griffiths (blacksmith), Stan Roberts (electritian), Dafydd Noel Jones (fitter), electritian name unknown (Llechwedd-Slate-Mine-Archive-Album-Image-004)
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Aveling Barford dump truck 1979 floor 7 (Llechwedd-Slate-Mine-Archive-Album-Image-003)
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Llechwedd Floor 3 with Albion Riever lorry 1979: Floor 3 (Llechwedd-Slate-Mine-Archive-Album-Image-002)
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Llechwedd floor 7 workshop 1979: View from workshop 1979 (Llechwedd-Slate-Mine-Archive-Album-Image-001)
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