quarry

Going through memory cards from last year I found this little gem, the Pen-yr-Orsedd quarry. Although many of these quarry buildings are slowly returning to nature there's a certain level of photographic derpy-ness about them that I love. Maybe it's the fact that most derelict surface stuff in...

For a few trips Wrysgan had been our back up mine on the way back to the car from another mine but turned out to be our back up mine following Croesor on the other side of the hill. Also while Wrysgan is one of the closest mines from the parking spot its still a bloody darn good hike!! Defending...

Visited this slate quarry in Snowdonia during some super sunny Sunday. I'd been hillwalking the day before and spotted the quarry from Nantlle Ridge, the slate tips being hard to miss! . Reading the map, the name Pen yr Orsedd didn't ring any bells, so I tried to research it a bit but found...

The surrounding buildings definitely look very neo-egyptian and it almost makes the site look like its a themed area out of a closed theme park. There isn't that much other than the buildings and the kilns to see here, but still, a worthwhile explore. You can check out all my photos from this...

An amazing place to explore with two main areas, one above ground in the old slate workshop and the other inside a mine. The locations are part of the Talwaenydd quarry which covers a large area however the most interesting section is located in the East section around 2km North East of Blaenau...

History shamelessly copied from another report as I know this place has been done multiple times: Crich quarry was a medium sized quarry located in the small Derbyshire town of Crich. Operated at first by The Clay Cross Company, with a metre gauge railway running through which was built by...

Needham Chalk Quarry A disused chalk quarry and processing site, now turned in to a housing estate. History Maurice Smither left the army in 1946 and used his world war two demobilisation money to begin selling chalk, he initially rented the quarry but then went on to buy the land from the farm...

I thought I'd give this a look after reading in the Express and Star it was meant to have be closed a the end of 2018. After visiting and finding it to be quite fresh I later found it had been given a reprieve to the end of July...

A grand day out and another mine ticked off! every time I'm blown away by the sheer size of the chambers that really have to be seen to be believed or even just to get a scale of how huge they are, the countless man hours put in to extract the slate doesn't bear thinking about. Theres a few nice...

It seemed a great idea at the time... On the drive back from Cwmorthin Slate Mine in north Wales we though instead of sit in Friday evening traffic around Birmingham why don't we kill an hour at Penarth? Well having never been before i had no idea the hike up to the adit was worse than the hike...

Intro We accidentally discovered this site the day before our visit, after having to cancel a London explore, so with little knowledge we headed there and hoped for the best. The Bulding The site itself (NOW DEMOLISHED) consisted of two buildings and multiple conveyors and towers, a bit like an...

Having been taken to this site by a photographer some months ago, I came back a little later down the line to photograph it myself but held off on posting it for some time, at the photographer's request. It was impossible to find any information on this place or why it closed but this lime works...

First post guy so bare with me, over the weekend me and group off friends when adventuring and stumbled across this old quarry. With machinery still left behind! The views from above the quarry where so nice!

I have been working in Denbigh and drove past the quarry and seen from the road that there are old archways that’s been bricked up or made to garages. There’s quite a lot of foliage so shorts wasn’t the best idea and probably would of been better during the day and not 2am. Anyway I was having a...

I hope you'll forgive me for making a report on such a heavily reported area. I feel this is my first 'proper' explore where I went to a location and had to actually do some fence hopping and I managed to find the courage to do it by myself! I really enjoyed it and I'm so glad I went. The...

Hi all, Has anyone on here managed to find the Newtyle Quarry mine outside Dunkeld?

We where recently out exploring Up Holland and decided to head down Crow Lane. We came across a rusty gate and mucky path that led us to old ruins of houses and to our amazement and old abandoned sandstone quarry dating back as early as the 1700s. After alot of walking around and investigating...