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  1. If you like your adits and industrial archaeology, here's a free, very visual write-up for you about the mile-long Penrhyn quarry drainage adit, built 1847-1849, possibly involving some Latter Day Saint drivers, though we failed to find definitive evidence so far.

    drive.google.com/file/d/123Y8_

    #heritage #quarries #mines #slate #wales #cymru #industrialarchaeology #ia

  2. Nice to go underground for a couple of hours to see my old 1862 friend, No. 2 hydraulic pump at a north Wales slate quarry. This kept levels 120 feet below this floor free of flooding and operated for a century with little maintenance. Its fuel was the original, free renewable: a head of water.

    #ia #cymru #wales #engineering #mines #quarries #heritage