Penmaenmawr Mountain Top Quarry

BGS Image ID: P539567

Penmaenmawr Mountain Top Quarry. Conveyors down to loading pier.

BGS Image ID: P539617

Ship loading jetty - some of output went by boat to London.

BGS Image ID: P539574

Drilling shot holes.

Images from the Hugh O'Neill collection. Photographs taken c 1960-61.

Posted by: Bob McIntosh

Storm damage in Aberystwyth, October 28th 1927 and January 15th 1938

A more complete set of images has just been posted here.

BGS image ID: P252861

N. end of Marine Terrace, Aberystwyth. Effects of storm of Oct. 28th, 1927.

BGS image ID: P252866

Borth, N. of Aberystwyth. Effects of storm of Oct. 28th, 1927.

BGS image ID: P257998

 Victoria Terrace, Aberystwyth. Effect of gale of Jan. 15, 1938.

All three images are from the British Association for the Advancement of Science photograph collection.

A more complete set of images has been posted here.

Bob McIntosh

Wynne Slate Quarry, Glyn-Ceiriog, Denbighshire. Interior view. A sawing-table.

BGS image ID: P203057

Wynne Slate Quarry, Glyn-Ceiriog, Denbighshire. Interior showing a sawing-table. The quarry was last worked in 1928.

A really useful history can be found here: The Wynne Slate Quarry, Glyn Ceiriog by J. G Isherwood

Photograph from the BGS A Series Collection: A3109. Date: 1925.

Bob McIntosh