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Report - - Bwlch Glas lead mine Feb 2013 | Mines and Quarries | 28DaysLater.co.uk

Report - Bwlch Glas lead mine Feb 2013

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Here's a little write up to avoid my account being deactivated. It's half term so we'll just keep things nice and simple…


These are some mine buildings and that is a Spungletrumpet...

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This is an adit...

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Here is a flooded shaft...

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And a timbered stope.

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A climbing shaft with original ladder. Don't climb down the ladder. It's too rickety.

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Spungle squeezes his big sack through the hole in the platform...

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Rigging pitch 2. It's even more important that you don't climb down this ladder, but if you do, please don't say you weren't warned about the missing sections...

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which are lying on the floor of a big stope at deep adit level.

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This is what we'd come to see. Cages jammed in place above a flooded shaft. This is the official Sub-Brit style picture...

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and here is the same feature, back lit for art purposes..

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More noncing...

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Before returning to the surface. Keep off the ladder Spungle!

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Anticipating the addition of great work by Spungletrumpet below...
 
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