moel fferna

The Explore Due to the location of this remote mine and the lack of parking on any nearby roads (and travelling in a vehicle that cant take any farmers paths)we had to park up in a lay by a few miles away. with bags full of camera equipment, rope, SRT kit and many snacks and drinks we started...

A grand day out and another mine ticked off! every time I'm blown away by the sheer size of the chambers that really have to be seen to be believed or even just to get a scale of how huge they are, the countless man hours put in to extract the slate doesn't bear thinking about. Theres a few nice...

A report from a visit back in June which I could only just be bothered to write up now. I have tried to visit before but there was 5 feet of snow on top of the mountain and it was getting dark so I gave up. This time we went during storm Hector which surprisingly turned out to be a 10mph...

As the weekend approached, so did another explore for myself @EOA and @monk. Seems we are a good trio of bell ends and something usually goes wrong somewhere down the line and Moel Fferna wasn’t going to let us (or shall I say me) down. Anyway, Myself and @EOA started the day with our customary...

History Moel Fferna Quarry lies at the end of the valley Moel Fferna. The mine opened in the 1870s and was worked almost entirely underground, and eventually working on seven levels. It developed a reputation for good slab and efficient working. Until a mill was built in 1911 slab was taken to...

Thanks to @Kwan for being a total pro and getting us all in and out in one piece. This trip was harder than it should of been thanks to weather and fallen trees, but it was still a great trip. So @The Kwan, @Lavino @GK_WAX, @Lenston, @Trancentral (and myself ventured down that air vent into...

Quite a few reports on here of this place and its history - amazing voluminous mine - felt like we only explored half of it and will have to go back again sometime - hope you enjoy the pictures A bit of history lifted from nwex.co.uk - Early workings tended to be in surface pits, but as the...

What a weekend, fabulous, managed a couple of explores with some great company to top it off! (You know who you are, members and non, thanks for everything).:thumb Brief: Moel Fferna slate quarry, is an underground working mine, which was opened in the 1860s, in Glyndyfrdwy, Merionethshire. It...

Visited with Two Non-Members Well back underground again! :rolleyes: This has been on the list for a while, everytime someone has gone down I've been busy so great to get it ticked off! Cracking mine, return visit is definately on the cards as the place is huge! Its extremely difficult to...

I visited here with Walsh and as usual we had a fantastic visit but not without drama. I found Moel Fferna to be a bit like Penarth, cold and unfriendly it was so huge that taking pictures and video was very difficult due to every lumin being sucked into the chasmic spaces and dark...

Visited with the Kwan. Had some fun driving up to this, it involved us getting stuck on one hell of a hill, couldnt go forward and couldnt reverse either! after an hour or so of 20 point turns and the most extreme reversing we managed to get to the parking point. History Early...

Cross Border Posting from other forums An object which appears to be one of the tensioners from the bridge at Moel Fferna has been discovered outside the air shaft of the mine, albeit that it has not yet been confirmed that it has been removed from the bridge. Pending confirmation that...

Moel Fferna Slate mine, Visited by Reddood, Earth worm Jim, New stuff, Evil Jim, Technobry, Liam. This was aranged earlyer in the week and i've been looking forward to it all week, I had read lots bout the place, and people who had been kept telling me how good it was, but i decided to hold...

So the idea was that I met up with Laurel & Hardy a.k.a Snappel & Northcave for an early start (11am:confused:) to do 3 mines in North wales. I get a text around 11, Were running about half an hour late! No probs 12:30 TXT Sorry, we got a bit lost, be there soon. OK, Don't use the first road...