This visit was a short detour when walking along the Anglesey Coastal path enroute to a much older quarry.
Late 1800's limestone quarry. Initially stone was carried by pony and cart then an uphaul incline until a wooden pier was constructed around 1900. Considered worked out of economical stone and closed around 1912.
1899
1900
1919
Immediately after WW2 the quarry was re-opened under the ownership of Cawood, Wharton & Co. Ltd. This time on an industrial scale, initially using an uphaul incline and later with a new crusher house for powdering limestone ready for calcining. Chippings and other larger grades were also extracted. A new pier was built with a conveyor system to carry the stone and load the company barges.
All quarrying ceased in 1959 and two years later most of the machinery and the internal 2foot guage railway were removed.
1951
1951
1960
Two of the three sections of the crusher house and hoppers remain as well as some ancilliary buildings dotted around the site.
A single cylinder, water cooled, horizontal diesel engine from National Gas & Oil Engine Co, Ashton-under-Lyne was used to power the pier conveyors and crusher. This engine and some of the ancilliary components remain but in very poor condition.
Scattered around the beach and quarry floor are the remains of tipper wagons, wheels, rollers and a stone grader. Nothing from the earlier workings was obvious.
From the path a substation, a cable drum support for the uphaul and a smaller electrical installation building are easily seen.
Late 1800's limestone quarry. Initially stone was carried by pony and cart then an uphaul incline until a wooden pier was constructed around 1900. Considered worked out of economical stone and closed around 1912.
1899
1900
1919
Immediately after WW2 the quarry was re-opened under the ownership of Cawood, Wharton & Co. Ltd. This time on an industrial scale, initially using an uphaul incline and later with a new crusher house for powdering limestone ready for calcining. Chippings and other larger grades were also extracted. A new pier was built with a conveyor system to carry the stone and load the company barges.
All quarrying ceased in 1959 and two years later most of the machinery and the internal 2foot guage railway were removed.
1951
1951
1960
Two of the three sections of the crusher house and hoppers remain as well as some ancilliary buildings dotted around the site.
A single cylinder, water cooled, horizontal diesel engine from National Gas & Oil Engine Co, Ashton-under-Lyne was used to power the pier conveyors and crusher. This engine and some of the ancilliary components remain but in very poor condition.
Scattered around the beach and quarry floor are the remains of tipper wagons, wheels, rollers and a stone grader. Nothing from the earlier workings was obvious.
From the path a substation, a cable drum support for the uphaul and a smaller electrical installation building are easily seen.
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