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Post by cannockwolf on Feb 26, 2012 12:03:22 GMT
one more from the weekend  |
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Post by Barry on Feb 26, 2012 17:23:51 GMT
I presume you had a weekend in north Wales. Good lighting, and I like your viewpoint, making the old building more dominant in the image.
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Post by cannockwolf on Feb 26, 2012 17:34:55 GMT
ye went up yesterday
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Post by nickjohnson on Feb 26, 2012 17:59:23 GMT
Very nice Dave. Good side light and you filled yer boots up.  |
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Post by robnaylor on Feb 26, 2012 18:08:25 GMT
Hats off to you for a great shot!
Composition is excellent IMO.
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Post by The Wirefox on Feb 26, 2012 18:37:43 GMT
A rare colour image from you Dave but really well composed and surprisingly for colour captures the mood of North Wales very well. They were a hard lot slate miners/quarrymen. Looks like an inclined plane in the foreground. Which one was it I have spent some time wandering around and sleeping in these old workings in my misspent youth. I don't recoginse (or remember) that building.
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Post by cannockwolf on Feb 26, 2012 18:56:08 GMT
cwmorthin the ones by the lake
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Post by Barry on Feb 26, 2012 19:02:40 GMT
We will be up there in May, but underground in the mines.
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Post by The Wirefox on Feb 26, 2012 19:11:33 GMT
It is the angle of the shot. These are the barracks. If so I have camped in there..back in the late 70's. What may be of interest to the uninitiated is the extent of the workings below ground  |
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Post by The Wirefox on Feb 26, 2012 19:13:09 GMT
We will be up there in May, but underground in the mines. Don't forget to write the lock combination on your arm  |
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Post by Barry on Feb 26, 2012 19:34:57 GMT
I have not been in this system before, although a few of our club members did a few trips here last year, apparently there is still quite a bit of machinery still in place, just a matter of finding it.
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Post by The Wirefox on Feb 26, 2012 19:45:41 GMT
I understand from someone that I used to work with that you have to lock the gate behind you with a combination lock..so if you lose the number you may have a cold damp wait. There probably is still a lot of machinery. Oakley closed late 60s I think but there was a workers conglomerate (two blokes from Tan-y-Twlch and a one eyed dog called Taff) working a small part of it up to the late eighties, early 90's. Plenty of good pics on the web of what you are likely to find.
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