tdobson
Member
I wonder if I could enquire about a slate site in a very vulnerable location. It isn't on the armchair explorer *I think*, and I've only been there once some years ago.
Assume you were wandering round Keswick and your mate tells you about "the world's largest boulder" and you take a short drive south to it's designated NT carpark.
In the carpark, let's say you got a bit nosy, and before starting your walk to the boulder and it's staircase, and the abseiling quarry (the foot of a quay) before, you wandered round the carpark until something shouted "there could be an adit here".
Because there *is* an adit. One that's clearly had rubbish dumped into it in the 70s (danger - decayed rubbish, glass etc).
Beyond the rubbish, the working continues to some largish galleries.
At a roof fall, a squeezy wriggle through thought provoking slate blocks gives access to an extension with evidence to suggest the fall happened sometime in the 70/80s.
My memory is fading, but I think there was another fall, and possibly I went through that too. I didn't have lots of time, as I hadn't really expected anything so interesting.
I'm sure I'm not the first to stumble upon this place, and if anyone can point to a CATHMS journal reference I'd warmly welcome it.
As you can hear - given how close it is to a teektok magnet, I'm keen not to easily surface anything in search results.
Edit: no sooner do I post it, I find the reference in Armchair Explorer and the relevant CATHMS reference:
buddlepit.co.uk
With basically less information than I already knew
so any other information would be warmly received.
Assume you were wandering round Keswick and your mate tells you about "the world's largest boulder" and you take a short drive south to it's designated NT carpark.
In the carpark, let's say you got a bit nosy, and before starting your walk to the boulder and it's staircase, and the abseiling quarry (the foot of a quay) before, you wandered round the carpark until something shouted "there could be an adit here".
Because there *is* an adit. One that's clearly had rubbish dumped into it in the 70s (danger - decayed rubbish, glass etc).
Beyond the rubbish, the working continues to some largish galleries.
At a roof fall, a squeezy wriggle through thought provoking slate blocks gives access to an extension with evidence to suggest the fall happened sometime in the 70/80s.
My memory is fading, but I think there was another fall, and possibly I went through that too. I didn't have lots of time, as I hadn't really expected anything so interesting.
I'm sure I'm not the first to stumble upon this place, and if anyone can point to a CATHMS journal reference I'd warmly welcome it.
As you can hear - given how close it is to a teektok magnet, I'm keen not to easily surface anything in search results.
Edit: no sooner do I post it, I find the reference in Armchair Explorer and the relevant CATHMS reference:
Quay Foot Quarry - Buddlepit Mine Database
Slate quarry in Borrowdale, Lake District, worked until 1930.
buddlepit.co.uk
With basically less information than I already knew
so any other information would be warmly received.
but I needed to ask a friend...
