Welsh Mining & Railroad History - Aberystwyth Wales Promenade

[@TrevorTrottier]

Ioan's historical ramblings are the primary reason I tune in.

[@patriley6227]

I must have climbed those rocks a hundred times great to find out where they came from

[@BulletmanDoom]

That's a hell of a sea wall and still in incredible condition after all these years. It looks like the lower blocks are larger and rougher cut, probably because they were under water so appearance wasn't as import and also to spread the weight of what's on top. They were obviously not as well cut as the rest which would explain why they didn't use them for the rest of the wall. It would take them decades to build something like that these days and that's if they could source big enough stone in the first place. The Welsh Tourist board, heritage society or someone should be sponsoring you guys for all the good work you do.

[@dansharpie]

the builders did a great job of getting the bed level .

[@clivekibbler4578]

loved it

[@rboutside]

Fabulous tour guide. I learned something cool today from the other side of the world 🌍

[@RhydzSkidz]

Love to see The Aber Van Man's van featured in the vid :D

[@jfdashley9028]

What an incredible place. It is cool you took one of your subscribers with you.

[@HunterTeddy010]

Two well handsome lads out doing history, nothing finer.

[@LostMines]

😃

[@rdamp2374]

Great HISTORY STORY.

[@kimbra1132]

Interesting facts and stones. Love the t shirt. LA, nice to wear that in Wales. Beautiful country mates. Love history, trains, and mines.

[@patriley6227]

I’m local to Aberystwyth and used to work at llywernog silver lead mine (don’t hold that against me) I stumbled across this on Facebook and I loved it, it would be fascinating to go for a hike with you guys sometime, I learned a few things from my time there, but it would be great to bend your ear on local history, loved the video, please get in touch

[@pharrimisstiggywink39]

Me too, I worked two summers for Peter Harvey at Llywernog in the early 80’s.

[@adrianriches456]

We are truly blessed to live in such a Beautiful part of the world... 👍👍🙏🙏

[@celestewalz8342]

Nice to see guys above ground. Interesting video as always.

[@mickeyfubar69]

you two make me very happy .you hold the Old his'story 🙏❤🙏

[@palmhall]

Outstanding, nice midweek surprise video, I appreciate it.

[@LostMines]

Thank you too!

[@deanarife9043]

Love this video! Appreciate the lesson in the history. So many people think nothing of our past or what use to lie where there is no more. So wish I could experience this.

[@earthvitalutube]

OMG.. i'm 47 seconds in but the remains of old railways, I have to comment: These are common in my neck of the woods. The remains of 1800's industry and logging PNW. I regularly trace them for fun. Folks it's likely you have similar old railways and roadways in your local areas. Always a good hike.

[@Raggy60]

Love Aberystwyth

[@zenaakers7469]

fascinating stuff... we are enjoying your videos more with each one we watch. Thank you.

[@neilbethell2299]

Love Aberystwyth. The company i work for fitted a radio system covering the entire length of the rheidol power plant. Enjoyed staying here pre covid

[@davidbowen7377]

I'm 16 mile south of Aberystwyth. That's some new local history for me. Thank you for the knowledge 👌👌

[@mrfungaltoe]

Great concept for a video and well executed! Thanks for posting.

[@Panzerkita61]

This was excellent. Thank you for doing this for us & please do more of the same. I never think your raambling as history is so very intersting. Have a great week ✌😎

[@casedoumasr656]

Thank you for showing the early days of mining with rail what you talk about is very intriguing about the early days of of mining with rail. Thank you .from wash state USA 🇺🇸👍

[@LostMines]

Glad you enjoyed it

[@m.j.morshead]

Nice to be exploring history above ground sometimes,nice one fellas.👍

[@LostMines]

Thanks 👍

[@robertclayberger4314]

All explorers are allowed every so often, to have an exploration where there is no mud, crawling and squeezing through tight passages etc. Here's a question for Ioan, have you thought about doing a video about the steam engine that you work on? It would be awesome to see how you do your job, and everything involved with the train! Even though you weren't underground, it was still a great explore. I so love the beauty of the English countryside!

[@bigmoney3405]

Wow, really intriguing. Loved this glimpse of Wales, must come to visit!

[@Merbydoo]

Nice little guided tour through some lovely country! Thanks for taking us along guys!

[@chrishollis9277]

Very interesting video again.

[@timfubar5439]

I must have walked over rock from there thousands of times, without ever realising! Great video!

[@LostMines]

You and me both!

[@kevinbrennan2004]

There is no other KZbin group like yours, that give so much information on your where-abouts. Outstanding.

[@LostMines]

Wow, thank you!

[@DrumToTheBassWoop]

Dam, I miss my hometown. 😌

[@johnsmart964]

Thank you so very much for this very interesting and informative video, it is much appreciated by the people. It is so important to keep the history of these things alive, thank you for doing this.

[@LostMines]

Glad it was helpful!

[@lesroberts2244]

Top notch chaps, great entertainment.

[@yogidemis8513]

Once again another great video, keep it up guy's! Looking forward to the next!

[@s.m.g.m2015]

Love the history,this is better than any over history channel.🙂thank you ✨

[@TOOL1023]

SO very interesting! Thank you for sharing your time and knowledge with us!

[@LostMines]

So nice of you

[@WideOpenThrottleGarage]

Love the history things older than my country lol 😆

[@deepwoodguy2]

Thanks for the tour of the old quarry...I lived in the area of Barre, Vermont, USA, which is famous for their granite quarries , quite a few in the area, some still producing granite today.. Or you can dive 110 feet from the top of the old quarries, into 30 feet of water..😎 as shown in some youtube videos..They imported quite a few Italians to work to cut the granite. As noted in the local cemetery with very large, beautiful tomb stones with Italian names inscribed ...👍👍👍

[@LostMines]

Thanks for the info!

[@cruising1792]

Amazing and very tantalising to see the railway line just ending like that, as if someone could just come along and pick up where they left off. Fascinating about the Royal Mint and about how busy and important the port at Aberystwyth was. Never knew any of that. Only been there once, must go back again, now I know a little more. Thank you.

[@timofthomas]

Love it - my family has some long history with the ships and the harbour right through the times you were covering in this video :)

[@petewebster2977]

Never a dull moment with you two , good stuff . Pete Australia

[@derekp2674]

Thanks very much for showing us the upper reaches of the Plynlimon & Hafan Tramway. I've been looking at its history and route for some while now, hoping to maybe one day go and visit to see what remains. It turns out that, twenty or so years ago, when I stayed at the Riverside Caravan Park on the Afon Leri, I would have been crossing the tramway route each time I drove into or out of the access road to the camp site, but no obvious traces of the tramway were to be seen there.

[@LostMines]

Glad you enjoyed it!

[@ridleyscurry2480]

Your job sounds amazing. I would love to do that

[@Km4rt]

That's it...I'm moving.

[@mirkatu3249]

That looks like a wonderful place to climb and explore. Loved the history, thanks so much!

[@LostMines]

It was!

[@zw5509]

Enjoyed that! Thanks and do more like it!

[@pharmmech]

Made me laugh! 700 feet high up , I lived at 7200 for 20 years live at 4200 feet now. 700 feet is like sea level to me. love the vids guys keep them coming!

[@johncale7139]

Hi, You have excelled yourselves in this video. I always love the history eliment. Keep up the fantastic work

[@barbaraprest783]

Amazing views and knowledge - thank you

[@davethebeard2706]

Ok, I love this, my family, Chenoweth, is from Wales/Cornwall and hearing this history is fascinating to me. You mentioned that many of the miners immigrated to Colorado which is where I was born and raised... This all explains why I like mines... 😉

[@wideyxyz2271]

Always good. Might see you on the VoR in August!

[@SheepDogActual]

How does store all that information? Lol. I’m glad he does though. My ancestors were miners in Wales in the Pembroke area. Side note. Our Boy Scout Scout master builds working miniature steam engine locomotives to ride on. I love these videos and the history. Thanks again.

[@paulcooper2897]

Very interesting! Wonder if the blasting to final size was fracturing the rock making it useless, or if those holes were actually for feathers and wedges ... Thanks for sharing 🇨🇦

[@johnfloydman7735]

Thanks for sharing 👍very interesting.. The berrys are called "bilberry 's" in Yorkshire 😜..

[@davyman2000]

The history of the UK outside of of the medieval period is so often overlooked so it's amazing to see some of this more "Modern" history. Thanks for sharing! It's also really interesting to compare how English mining styles and technology used in the late 19th century often diverged from the colonies, especially here in Nova Scotia

[@LostMines]

Couldn't agree more!

[@meichong8278]

@@LostMines IOAN is the engine they sold from the quarry to your workplace still there and operational ?

[@Textilenerd123]

Love the history video, boys! Thank you!

[@cptnkaos5994]

Amazing history, thanks for sharing

[@LostMines]

You bet

[@BobKernow]

The berries were always called Whortle berries in Cornwall where I grew up. This is a really interesting video, it's good to learn the history behind the places and the industry. In lots of ways it parallels the story of the Cornish mines and miners (and quarries), financial difficulties and cheaper foreign imports leading to closures and migration.

[@Lfig012]

Great vid....thanks

[@LostMines]

Glad you enjoyed it

[@paulcarpenter2800]

A fascinating documentary, what a great combination of subjects. You have a great knowledge of both. Thanks for sharing.

[@LostMines]

Our pleasure!

[@FallenArkansasVeterans]

That is beautiful country Alan, Love it.

[@LostMines]

Glad you enjoyed it

[@andymoseley2230]

Not only mine exploration but also a mine of very interesting information, many thanks....see what I did there haha

[@ladeene06]

Just stumbled here. Hope there's more videos like this. I love history being told just like this little documentary. Despite the rock supposedly not being good enough it sure seems to be holding up. Would love to have seen a quick pic of that ruined castle. Anyways...Thanks for the video.

[@TheSnazah]

Awesome show again!!!!

[@LostMines]

Glad you enjoyed it!

[@trooperandcooperale3057]

They're probably not shot holes on the stairs but lifting points for the Lewis Clamps/ Pins used to lift and lower the slabs into place.

[@nigel900]

Very interesting. 👍🏻

[@mksemposki]

Yay! Another video from one of my favorite channels!!! It was great learning about the promenade and the stone they used. Just curious but I wonder why they would consider the stone faulty. Looked like good stone to me since some of it is still in use. 😊

[@LostMines]

Awesome! Thank you!

[@Christopher_Samuel-i7o]

A very interesting video, Ioan. Good work.

[@patriley6227]

There billberies our native wild version of the blueberry, they make great ice cream

[@jasonbrook6002]

I’ve walked a fair bit of the line and been in the top level of the mine

[@mikaelabowen5781]

Another fascinating video - thank you! I'm very interested to see the quarry workings and the quarry-blocks still left in situ. Were the blocks always blasted apart, or did they also use "plugs and feathers" to split them? I worked as a stonemason and regularly used to split 3 tonne quarry blocks, before primary cut on a saw, using the plug and feather technique. It's very controllable, as you can get a tension going throughout the line of drillings, which I can't see how one might achieve with blasting. I've been binge-watching your videos for days - thank you so much for such interesting and informative content.

[@adriannicholson8819]

NICE

[@rebeccalucysmith9689]

Did you find the silver coins minted locally, or buy them from a collector? Great to track the granite from that quarry, must solve the mystery for some people. I’ve always wondered how they got the millstones from Stanage Edge in the Peak District, to their final destination; yes they’re round as carved on site; but huge, I have enough trouble getting my climbing pack back to the car! Going off topic here but I thought I’d share that 😀

[@surferboyuk84]

I lived in Aber

[@DiaryofaGrimReaper]

So that is Wales? My family from my mothers side is William Williams. My Great Grandfather was a direct relation, as his name is also William Williams who lived in the United States, and stayed at the castle many times. I met my grandfather one summer when I was a boy, in 1981? I was about 7 years old. I am a royal bloodline.

[@conway5481]

Love Wales

[@realbounty5221]

Great tour! I've been following you for a while and now I've subscribed! You are very likeable and I am amazed at your knowledge! Besides, my english comprehension has become so good over the time that I don't have to rely on the automatic translation anymore! Many greetings from germany!

[@darreno9874]

Normally if your spliting rock for construction you don't blast you use plug and feathers or other low energy method. It is possible they may have used small quantity of black powder for breaking large rock from the face. The small holes perpendicular to the face is for lifting. God bless

[@paulharries696]

Which route did the tramway that brought the stone down to Aber take? I was trying to work out where it would come into Aberystwyth.

[@DaiElsan]

I always knew the berries as Wimberries

[@dustpanandthebrush5293]

Great watch 👌 I was aware of "rheidol" the loco that worked this line then worked the vale of rheidol but do you know what the other loco was at all?

[@PaulApplebyphotography]

Could it have been feather and wedge that split the larger stones, rather than blasting?

[@nathanbrynmenyn935]

do you / would you help the blaengarw restoration line? they are on face book

[@jw2218]

You had to say pasty, now I’m hungry. Lol

[@coaxialembryo]

How old is the younger lad? Very knowledgeable

[@alanpurdy703]

I wonder why they didn't keep the quarry going for house building.

[@TheDamageinc81]

Molyneux (spell?) must of had a ton of cash to grade a mountain 8 miles with a narrow guage rail to mine out the area. Paying labor and the time it took must of been back-breaking and costly.

[@1RebelDog1]

Have you ever been to a mine in Glyndyfdwy, near corwen? there are 2? one you have to absail into and another u can walk in... Edit: let me know if you would like to go, been a subscriber for a loooong time, love your vids...

[@Mark-xl8gg]

Feather holes for splitting, not blasting

[@DFDuck55]

Very cool. I am a history buff so really enjoy this sort of thing. And as an American they teach us little to no European history. Or even factual American history for that matter. Teaching straight up false "facts" such as Columbus discovering American.

[@karlharvymarx2650]

How do you keep from being overrun with tourists and real estate developers?

[@simontay4851]

Why was that stone deemed to be poor quality. Looks good enough to me. It actually looks very good quality. The aber prom has been there for 120 years and the stone is hardly weathered at all. It would be excellent stone for roads and railway track ballast today, especially the smaller pieces in piles all ready to be used.

[@Lothnothus]

who are you?

[@AurProspector]

The locals use to sabotage the rail line which caused the death of one of the train drivers.

[@jmarsh3347]

Love your videos and your enthusiasm but I respectfully disagree about the forge, such a forge would be virtually useless to a blacksmith. The fire is enclosed on 3 sides, the smith would only be able to heat the ends of whatever material he was using. He would not have been able to heat the middle of anything longer than 12 inches. Forges have to be open on all sides so that the smith can heat large pieces.

[@LostMines]

Makes sense thanks for the impute

[@AussiePom]

Imagine going to all that expense to build the railway to the quarry only to close it and rip it all up just a few years later. I'll bet shareholders were furious with their money being wasted. At 6.28 there's another dry stone wall. Any idea what they may have been?. At 15.17 on the promenade behind Ioan there's the Norwegian flag and beyond that is that the Australian flag?, If so then the large single star under the Union Jack is the commonwealth star and the stars on the right are the southern cross constellation only visible in the southern hemisphere night sky.

[@donwright3427]

Da iawn

[@Old_Sod]

Republish book please

[@illumencouk]

Great video so thank you. However...I refuse to entertain the idea that those who planned and built the historic Aberystwyth promenade wall, along with everything else you see around and about, made such fundamental errors as sourcing poor materials. Everything these people put their hands to radiates perfection and screams 'wow!' Cock-up's are a modern phenomenon.