Gunpowder plot update,,new pics

[jools]

With ref. to my previous thread,,,

http://www.derelictplaces.co.uk/main/showthread.php?t=20509&highlight=gunpowder

I found some old pics for comparison ,,,,, here are the major remains as they are now,,, but there are extensive derelict buildings hidden away in the dense undergrowth that defy photography ,,,,,,,

,as it was in the 60's,,,,,

After the gunpowder factory shut down the buildings were taken over by the nearby quarry for the production of granite sets and tarmac ,,,,

 

[night crawler]

Nice bit of research that.

 

[krela]

Love the combination of old and new stuff. Thank you jools.

 

[Pincheck]

very nice indeed

 

[smiler]

Lovely, Thanks

 

[jools]

,,,, don't you love those old pics ,, bottom right of one of those ,,,,,,,,,,, is what looks like; the owner in a top hat ,, foreman in a bowler and the young lads throwing bright new green granite sets into wagons. They would go for a gravity-powered trundle three miles down to Glyn Ceiriog ,,, then be steam pulled to Chirk for trans-shipment onto main-line wagons.

Their hands must have been so calloused that they could have sanded wood ,,,,,,,,,, and given the young girls a rash!!

Here is the train of quarry wagons joined to the passenger carriages and general freight trucks at Glyn Ceiriog.

 

[highcannons]

You have been busy, nice one. You will have to put a team of scrub cutters to work on the site!
I have a site locally which I did some work on a few years ago (not sploring, archaeology) and now the Nat. Trust have been grazing the area it is all cleared so have to go back again.

 

[jools]

It would be great to see the site cleared but most of it is tumbling,,,

,,this is adjacent to the large building I took pics of and is part of the crushing plant. The other buildings in this complex are in a similar or worse state. If this area was cleared of undergrowth and trees then it would be designated a dangerous area as there is no cash to stabilise it.. so it would end up flattened or fenced off. And then there are other industrial buildings in this short valley that could do with similar attention,,,,,,,,,, at least ten quarries,,,granite,, slate,,, silica that have buildings and inclined planes,,,,one area of flooded slate caverns that the owner boats around in ,,,,, another with caverns that used to be open to the public but had to shut because of H & S,,,,,,,,, there are flannel mills,, lime kilns ,, Collieries ,, aqueducts,, viaducts ,, canals ,,, all within 12 or so miles ,,,,, and none of it is presented to the public in a safe way and little of it stabilised or renovated.

If we were back in the 70's then something could have been made of the area as was done to Ironbridge,,,,,,,, but now , I think it's unlikely. The main gunpowder building is Grade 2 listed but is sliding down into the river so the listing won't save it.

Ah well