The slate quarry is near to the Craig Goch reservoir in the Elan Valley, not far from Rhayader in Radnor. As Nr Bones said in his thread of the North Wales slate workings, they were shut down during the early to mid seventies and just left undisturbed.
Seeing Mr B's report reminded me that I'd visited here. The only pics I have, unfortunately, are all on slides and they are quite old. However, I went to the local photo printers and got copies of them. The slides themselves look okay and you can see the details and colour, but the copies are really bad. So apologies for the photos, but at least it gives a bit of an idea.
The dam with a rather cute little gazebo tower thing in the middle.
Building, of which you can only really see the roof. Probably looks white from the light reflection.
A side view of one intact building and the remaining end wall of another. A slightly better pic.
Not at all sure what this was, but did wonder if it was the remains of a housing for a pulley system.
And that's it, folks! Sorry about the quality, but thought it was sort of interesting anyway.
Seeing Mr B's report reminded me that I'd visited here. The only pics I have, unfortunately, are all on slides and they are quite old. However, I went to the local photo printers and got copies of them. The slides themselves look okay and you can see the details and colour, but the copies are really bad. So apologies for the photos, but at least it gives a bit of an idea.
The dam with a rather cute little gazebo tower thing in the middle.
Building, of which you can only really see the roof. Probably looks white from the light reflection.
A side view of one intact building and the remaining end wall of another. A slightly better pic.
Not at all sure what this was, but did wonder if it was the remains of a housing for a pulley system.
And that's it, folks! Sorry about the quality, but thought it was sort of interesting anyway.
Very apt!
