Slate Quarry Beware - Other Colour Pics Share This Title (1962)

[@itsme-gm9oi]

I often walk around this old mine. Amazing to see it when it was still being worked. Thank you posting.

[@conniewilliams547]

My great grandfather and great great grandfather worked in this mine.

[@West_Coast_Mainline]

Thanks for the footage, figured a lot about slate inclines thanks to this

[@valegoat468]

Great post. My ancestors worked here in 1800’s I could only imagine there were hundreds of men scattered about the place then.

[@knownothing5518]

"And a century ahead, no doubt they'll still be mining these quarries-" a few years later, Dinorwic closed.

[@rexxaitken]

2:36 "and no doubt a century ahead [2062] they'll be working these quarries in much the same way"

[@uncouthboy8028]

Still operating a hundred years hence. Alas, this is not the case.

[@raybans8712]

What happened to it? I am a slater from London and the Welsh slate is the top of the market slate

[@uncouthboy8028]

@@raybans8712 closed down around 2009.

[@raybans8712]

@@uncouthboy8028 because it ran out of slate?

[@uncouthboy8028]

@@raybans8712 I'm not sure. My assumption was it being due to health and safety or the environment.

[@rottenroads1982]

The Dinorwic Quarry Closed in 1969, only 7 years after the time of this Documentary ( 1962 ). All of the Dinorwic Alice Class locomotives were preserved. Not sure about the Diesels though.

[@jamesparkersculpture]

Enjoyed the post.Thanks

[@egord9101]

All gone now, did not stand the test of time

[@rottenroads1982]

1:44, Ruston&Hornsby 48DL. Ok.

[@sacoope1]

KZbinrs are eating slates with clay paste.