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Floor 2 adit (Llechwedd-Slate-Mine-User-Album-Image-001)
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Tramway (Llechwedd-Slate-Mine-User-Album-Image-002)
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Choughs cavern (Llechwedd-Slate-Mine-User-Album-Image-003)
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Floor B: Below floor B is flooded, thats about 7 floors (Llechwedd-Slate-Mine-User-Album-Image-004)
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The main incline (Llechwedd-Slate-Mine-User-Album-Image-011)
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Smithy (Llechwedd-Slate-Mine-User-Album-Image-029)
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Hearth (Llechwedd-Slate-Mine-User-Album-Image-030)
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Floor 3 drumhouse (Llechwedd-Slate-Mine-User-Album-Image-033)
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Floor 3 pumping house: This building housed the pumping equipment and sits adjacent to a shaft (Llechwedd-Slate-Mine-User-Album-Image-034)
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Greaves Preservation Work: The Remains of the Robey Incline winder house on Floor 5. Last week the winding house and winders were more or less complete (Llechwedd-Surface-Destruction-Image-001)
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Incline Winder remains: Hard to tell from the picture but all the castings are smashed. The winding house is the pile of rubble behind (Llechwedd-Surface-Destruction-Image-002)
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More Greves Preservation work (Llechwedd-Surface-Destruction-Image-040)
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Incline, Llechwedd: The main incline that headed up into the quarry from the feeder level with the Festiniog Railway, circa 1979 (Llechwedd-Slate-Mine-User-Album-Image-035)
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Slate wagons, Llechwedd: Found at the base of the incline leading up to Maenofferen. This unusual version has a ratchet hand brake. Circa 1979. (Llechwedd-Slate-Mine-User-Album-Image-036)
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'The Eclipse': Overhead electric loco, abandoned circa 1979. (Llechwedd-Slate-Mine-User-Album-Image-037)
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Llechwedd transhipment yard: Transhipment yard at foot of Llechwedd incline. Standard gauge main line into Blaenau in background, circa 1979. (Llechwedd-Slate-Mine-User-Album-Image-038)
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Black gang 1978: Now(Pentrefoelas)forklift driver,Robert Griffiths blacksmith, Stan Roberts electritian,Dafydd Noel Jones Fitter, Electritian dont remember name. (Llechwedd-Slate-Mine-User-Album-Image-039)
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Floor 5 1978: Llechwedd floor 5 from road leading to floor 7 1978 (Llechwedd-Slate-Mine-User-Album-Image-040)
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Llechwedd floor 7 workshop 1979: View from workshop 1979 (Llechwedd-Slate-Mine-Archive-Album-Image-001)
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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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Aveling Barford dump truck 1979 floor 7 (Llechwedd-Slate-Mine-Archive-Album-Image-003)
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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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The site. (Llechwedd-Slate-Mine-User-Album-Image-041)
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Llechwedd fl.5 to bone incline shed Jan.2007 (Llechwedd-Slate-Mine-User-Album-Image-048)
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Name plate on air compressor which used to be inside fl.5 to bone incline shed. Jan. 2007 (Llechwedd-Slate-Mine-User-Album-Image-049)
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Wooden Flat Wagon: Wooden flat wagon (FR ?) in Quarry Tours display area November 2006. This wagon has subsequently disappeared. (Llechwedd-Slate-Mine-User-Album-Image-050)
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Pay day at Llechwedd Fl.5? Date unknown (Llechwedd-Slate-Mine-Archive-Album-Image-005)
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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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Crane: Prior to the recent road works (Llechwedd-Slate-Mine-Archive-Album-Image-007)
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Improvised Central Heating Boiler: Brilliantly improvised central heating boiler made with 2ins metal pipe coiled around a coal/log fireplace. Has been hidden from view for many years by a workbench etc. at electrical workshop fl.5. (Llechwedd-Slate-Mine-User-Album-Image-056)
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Quarry Tours 1980's: One of the electric conversions on display, with Gloddfa Ganol etc. in the background. (Llechwedd-Slate-Mine-User-Album-Image-057)
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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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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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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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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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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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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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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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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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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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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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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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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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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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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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Floor 7 mills from the North 1975 (Llechwedd-Slate-Mine-Archive-Album-Image-022)
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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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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 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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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 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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