Wrysgan Slate Quarry

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Adit Portal	Looking Towards Incline Head	Remains of Incline Engine	Incline Gear on Ground
Looking Down Incline	Frame of a Dressing Machine	Remains of the Mill	High Adit with Daylight Inside
Small Chamber Breaking to Daylight	Chamber with Window	Roof Collapse	Gaping Drop
Massive Chamber	Looking up the Incline	Looking down the incline from the dam road	Remains of a belt-driven Pillar Drill
High Chamber	Wrestling with a camera	Inside a daylit chamber	Looking down into a chamber
Exploring a small chamber	Looking into a chamber	Massive Chamber	Panorama

Warning

Ceiling Slab 'Of Death!'

Celing slab 2

Climbing up Level 2 to 3

Now repaired and goes right across.

Top entrance - Three levels down

Exteme Scrabble in context

Readable Scrabble

head of the main incline	a view from cwmorthin	daylight
Top of the Incline	Tip	tunnel	tired

Miles in Wrysgan

Through the Tunnel

The Man-Way

Inside Wrysgan

Derelict mill building 16/10/08	Level 2 chamber break-out 16/10/08	Level 5 entrance chamber 16/10/08	Level 5 entrance chamber 16/10/08
Level 5 entrance chamber 16/10/08	Level 4 chamber, huge boulders from roof fall 16/10/08	Level 6 chamber 16/10/08	Level 6, huge inclined chamber 16/10/08
Level 6 chamber 16/10/08	Mill level. Exit tramway 16/10/08	Former lorry engine 16/10/08	Remains of steam engine 16/10/08
Belt drive-shaft	Derelict wagon 16/10/08

Wrysgan/Cwmorthin Long Haul Trip 2011



	Incline	Floor 1	Floor 1
The entrance to floor 4 from floor 3	Level 4	Floor 5 near the drum house	Floor 5 near the drum house
Floor 5 near the drum house	Floor 5 near the drum house	Floor 5 adit - near the drum house	The barracks
The reservoir	An adit into floor 6 near the reservoir	The ventilating adit	Looking into one of the floor 6 caverns
Another view of the barracks	Looking through the incline	Looking down the incline	The top of the incline
The remains at the top of the incline	The remains at the top of the incline	The remains of a building on the side of the tip

Looking towards the short tunnel at head of Wrysgan's well preserved external incline	Old quarry buildings and equipment forlorn on a misty day	A misty day at Wrysgan quarry	Large chamber opening to a "window" Upper floor of Wrysgan quarry.
At top of vertical descent into massive chamber!	Quarry buildings in the mist, Wrysgan.	Massive rock falls are characteristic of this quarry	Entrance to the lower level adit - Wrysgan - October 2010 trip Standing here was rather uncomfortable due to the cold air venting out of the vast workings of Wrysgan
large chamber entered from lowest level	Standing in vast chamber at lowest level: This photo gives some idea of the width of these chambers	Lower level adit We found the foor of this adit to be flooded and a very cold draught was blowing through from the huge chambers beyond!	Looking towards the vast Cwmorthin tips from the vicinity of Wrysgan lower adit
	large chamber on lower level This photo gives some idea of the vastness of the workings!	Slab waggon - Wrysgan	Adit leading to the bottom of the workings where one can look up into a series of massive chambers.