Dorothea beam pumping engine
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Dorothea beam pumping engine
Image: © David Stowell Taken: Unknown
The Dorothea engine was built to drain the deep quarries in this section of the Nantlle Valley. In the late 1960s/early 1970s it was preserved and the engine house restored as seen in this picture from 1976. Compare with Image nearly 20 years later.
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Image Location
Latitude
53.054861
Longitude
-4.243981