north wales

The Llanberis bomb store was built by the air ministry in the eastern pit of the disused Glynrhonwy Isaf slate quarry, the quarry was deemed suitable for the storage of 18,000 tons of bombs and construction of the bomb store was completed in 1941. Because of the great depth of the quarry the...

History - The chapel was built in1868 in the Gothic style with gable-entry by architect Thomas of Landore. This current building replacing an earlier chapel built in 1833. The chapel closed in 1973. Explore - We explored this place on a day of doing Welsh chapels. This was probably our...

History - As is usually the case with these little Welsh chapels there isn't much history available. This building appears to have been built in 1870 replacing an earlier chapel built in 1840. Explore - We had a look at this place while on a day of exploring Welsh chapels, it's in great...

I found myself on Anglesey whilst on the hunt for Headstocks last year, so of course I had to pay a visit to Octel as I was down the road! The History Background Life for Octel began in 1940, with the completion of a factory in Northwich to produce Anti Knock Compound (AKC) for aircraft fuel...

The Royal Hotel, the most prominent building in Llangollen, a hotel situated besides the River Dee in Llangollen, North Wales The Royal is seen as far back as 1752 in a commercial directory, nobody is sure of it's original date of construction. In 1832 Princess Victoria, the future queen...

Located on a low mound 20 yards north of Brymbo road. This post is in pretty decent condition with quite a few bits left to see although it has deteriorated since the original post on here. It still has the table, shelf and cupboard, the battery box and a few charts and other bits and pieces...

We bobbed in for a look at this little chapel while on our way to another location after seeing some of the other reports on it, most recently covered by @HughieD . Theres not a lot of history online, it was first built in in 1805 and then rebuilt in 1843 to accommodate 100 people. The Chapel...

We thought we'd do a small report on this as while it is just a single derelict shunter we found it really photogenic and ended up with more photos than expected! GEC stphenson locomotives are a type of heavy industrial shunter built in the 1970s by GEC traction. This is the 3 axle variant...

Llywarch Welsh Calvinistic Methodist Chapel is a pretty standard small Welsh Chapel built in 1891. Theres very little history about this place online. The Chapel itself is in pretty good condition and has few nice features. Thanks for looking.

I know this has been done to death but I thought I would post a recent report on this amazing property so people can see the current state of the property and also our experience getting into the property as a few people have had varied experiences based on past reports. I and a mate visited...

Padeswood Hall was built around 1865 by William Fiddler the owner of Padeswood Colliery. It seems to have been his residence until the closure of the colliery around 1900. From that point there isn't a lot of info on the place other than a couple of references to other private residents of the...

Introduction I’m currently going through some of my older photos from earlier in the year. On our annual trip to Wales, me and @JakeV50 went to take another look at the old Octel Bromine Works site in Anglesey. I wanted to revisit to get a few pics with the camera as I previously only used my...

History- This mortuary was built in 1930's as an overspill for Wrexham War memorial hospital. Many fatalities of ww2 passed through here including both British and enemy Air crews. The victims of an RAF bomber crash near Bwlchgwyn in January 1943 were some of the last bodies to pass through the...

This has been posted a couple of months ago but we really liked it so posting our take on it. We've done a few watermills recently from fully intact to ruins and this place is one of our favourites, we're working our way through posting them all. History - There has been a mill on this site...

History - This Victorian mausoleum was built in the 1870s for the Assheton-Smith family, which owned the Vaynol estate and the Dinorwig slate quarry. Thomas Assheton-Smith, who had developed the slate quarries, was buried in 1858 in Hampshire, where the family had another home, but later members...

This was a revisit, did a report on this quite a while ago but we'd never done any underground and our shots were terrible. Always wanted to do a better job and while in the area decided to have another stab at it. Link to original report Report - - Nant y Gadwen Manganese Mine - Rhiw, Lllyn...

Introduction Me and @V50jake visited this one on our recent exploring trip to Wales. We have seen it before but wanted to get some better photos and take another look. History & Information The Grade II Listed Mausoleum is situated on the 500-acre Vaynol Estate, this section of the estate is...

Here's part two of the remaining headframes in the country. Other than Chatterley Whitfield, the South Wales Coalfield definitely has the best remaining colliery infrastructure I would say. The amount left in Cornwall was rather surprising, made for a decent day out though! Be a while until part...

Introduction This is a place I wanted to tick off whilst on my North Wales exploring trip back in Spring. I wasn’t expecting much and although there isn’t much to it, I quite liked this place and I found some history on it so I thought it was report-worthy. History & Information Cemaes Bay...

Finally got around to visiting here for the first time earlier in the year on an Urbex trip to North Wales. Didn't do much research prior to the explore, so I went only expecting the remains of a brickworks, I didn't realise the site has been used by various industries over it's life. The...