This is the follow-up to the previous report and covers the western section of the quarry.
Without repeating the history, Penmeanmawr was and still is a granite quarry, originally producing stone for paving, and subsequently crushed rock.
The walk. No planning whatsoever was involved, I just drove up round the back, headed for some buildings near the summit and kept going.
The final route is shown below on a leaflet from the little museum in Penmaenmawr - it would have been more sensible to have visited the museum first so I had more idea what I was looking at.
There are lot of pictures here, all phone, but then there’s a lot to see.
Starting just to the west of the former peak of the hill, which has now been quarried away, there’s a collection of empty sheds, the largest of which seems to have housed an air compressor judging by the air tank behind.
A look into the hole in the top of the hill, then down an incline to a couple of drum houses and what was probably a workshop.
Down further to an empty building, maybe another workshop, which is concrete but with an extra stone wall on the uphill side, maybe for protection from falling rocks.
The drum house next door still has a turntable for diverting in wagons of rock.
On the the next shelf are some sheds where workers shaped paving setts.
The bits of rusty metal sheeting with holes are said to be old sizing screens from the crushing mills - concrete was poured over them to make walls and roofs.
A loco shed with a little rusty steam engine outside - the other side of the shed has a built-in water tank.
Two more drum houses, one of which has most of the brake lever mechanism still there.
The brakeman needed to be able see over the edge of the incline, hence the long levers.
This one partly made out of reinforced concrete.
A couple of inclines go down from here, I took the upper one which still has the sheave for the winding rope.
A couple more drum houses with some weighbridge equipment nearby.
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Without repeating the history, Penmeanmawr was and still is a granite quarry, originally producing stone for paving, and subsequently crushed rock.
The walk. No planning whatsoever was involved, I just drove up round the back, headed for some buildings near the summit and kept going.
The final route is shown below on a leaflet from the little museum in Penmaenmawr - it would have been more sensible to have visited the museum first so I had more idea what I was looking at.
There are lot of pictures here, all phone, but then there’s a lot to see.
Starting just to the west of the former peak of the hill, which has now been quarried away, there’s a collection of empty sheds, the largest of which seems to have housed an air compressor judging by the air tank behind.
A look into the hole in the top of the hill, then down an incline to a couple of drum houses and what was probably a workshop.
Down further to an empty building, maybe another workshop, which is concrete but with an extra stone wall on the uphill side, maybe for protection from falling rocks.
The drum house next door still has a turntable for diverting in wagons of rock.
On the the next shelf are some sheds where workers shaped paving setts.
The bits of rusty metal sheeting with holes are said to be old sizing screens from the crushing mills - concrete was poured over them to make walls and roofs.
A loco shed with a little rusty steam engine outside - the other side of the shed has a built-in water tank.
Two more drum houses, one of which has most of the brake lever mechanism still there.
The brakeman needed to be able see over the edge of the incline, hence the long levers.
This one partly made out of reinforced concrete.
A couple of inclines go down from here, I took the upper one which still has the sheave for the winding rope.
A couple more drum houses with some weighbridge equipment nearby.
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