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jhluxton Joined: 21/08/2010 Location: Liverpool View Profile View Posts View Personal Album View Personal Files View all Photos Send Private Message	Cwmorthin Query Posted: 01/04/2020 15:14:56 Reply \| Quote A couple of weeks ago I went for my first proper wander around the surface workings of Cwmorthin Quarry, something I had been intending to do ever since I first went there and also went briefly underground when I was on Geography field course as a student around 1980. I have a couple of questions to enable me to caption some photographs which I have not been able to find an answer two from Graham Isherwood's book a copy of which I ordered after I returned home. First of all near the Lake Mill site there is a boat house with a newish looking roof in which behind a locked gate can be seen a boat. Is that a new build or an adapted quarry structure? The water level was high and it looked as though anyone entering through the door on the opposite side would get their feet wet! Second question is regarding one of the fingers of waste dumped into the lake there are the remains of a hut - anyone know if that would have had a specific purpose? - Neither of these structures as shown on the 1939 Lake Mill area map in the Cwmorthin book. Just curious! Thanks John -- www.jhluxton.com - Transport, Industrial Archaeology Photography and More https://www.flickr.com/photos/jhluxton/ - my Flickr Photostream IP: 86.164.140.106
alex17595 Joined: 05/01/2018 View Profile View Posts View Personal Album View Personal Files View all Photos Send Private Message	Cwmorthin Query Posted: 01/04/2020 15:28:10 Reply \| Quote There is a boathouse marked on the 1949-61 Os maps. It is also mentioned on this page: http://www.cwmorthin.com/9._the_people.html The people who owned the sheep would come up, the ladies would prepare the food and we, the children, would mark the sheep. Some would come and fish the Cwmorthin Lake by boat and when we came home from school we’d have a lift home across the lake in their boat. We’d be sure of a cup of tea and a piece of cake from the men at the boat shed. It also mentions Wrysgan was still working around this time (1940s perhaps?) IP: 31.49.19.74
sinker Joined: 13/12/2010 Location: North Wales. View Profile View Posts View Personal Album View Personal Files View all Photos Send Private Message	Cwmorthin Query Posted: 01/04/2020 18:26:09 Reply \| Quote alex17595 wrote: There is a boathouse marked on the 1949-61 Os maps. It is also mentioned on this page: http://www.cwmorthin.com/9._the_people.html The people who owned the sheep would come up, the ladies would prepare the food and we, the children, would mark the sheep. Some would come and fish the Cwmorthin Lake by boat and when we came home from school we’d have a lift home across the lake in their boat. We’d be sure of a cup of tea and a piece of cake from the men at the boat shed. It also mentions Wrysgan was still working around this time (1940s perhaps?) The boathouse was rebuilt around.....10 years ago...? The local angling club lease the area and some of the buildings too. -- Yma O Hyd.... ta-ta ty hâ... IP: 109.155.110.47
alex17595 Joined: 05/01/2018 View Profile View Posts View Personal Album View Personal Files View all Photos Send Private Message	Cwmorthin Query Posted: 01/04/2020 18:33:49 Reply \| Quote sinker wrote: alex17595 wrote: There is a boathouse marked on the 1949-61 Os maps. It is also mentioned on this page: http://www.cwmorthin.com/9._the_people.html The people who owned the sheep would come up, the ladies would prepare the food and we, the children, would mark the sheep. Some would come and fish the Cwmorthin Lake by boat and when we came home from school we’d have a lift home across the lake in their boat. We’d be sure of a cup of tea and a piece of cake from the men at the boat shed. It also mentions Wrysgan was still working around this time (1940s perhaps?) The boathouse was rebuilt around.....10 years ago...? The local angling club lease the area and some of the buildings too. I did think it looked at bit new. IP: 31.49.19.74
jhluxton Joined: 21/08/2010 Location: Liverpool View Profile View Posts View Personal Album View Personal Files View all Photos Send Private Message	Cwmorthin Query Posted: 12/04/2020 14:33:55 Reply \| Quote Thanks for info. I did notice a couple of chaps in underground gear coming out on of the former Quarry Office when I was walking back from Conglog so presume that is a shared facility with Go Below and the anglers? John -- www.jhluxton.com - Transport, Industrial Archaeology Photography and More https://www.flickr.com/photos/jhluxton/ - my Flickr Photostream IP: 86.164.140.106
staffordshirechina Joined: 15/11/2009 Location: North Staffordshire View Profile View Posts View Personal Album View Personal Files View all Photos Send Private Message	Cwmorthin Query Posted: 12/04/2020 16:24:30 Reply \| Quote No, just Go Below. IP: 78.150.16.219

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