IMAGES TAKEN NEAR TO
Pant, OSWESTRY, SY10 9RD
Introduction
This page details the photographs taken nearby to SY10 9RD by members of the Geograph project.
The Geograph project started in 2005 with the aim of publishing, organising and preserving representative images for every square kilometre of Great Britain, Ireland and the Isle of Man.
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Image Map
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Image Listing (30 Images Found)
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Metal Workers, Llanymynech Quarry
At various places around the quarry trail they've put sheet metal cutouts of workmen doing their respective jobs.
Somehow the hats make them look more American than Welsh, but you get the idea.
Image: © Des Blenkinsopp
Taken: 23 Apr 2012
0.13 miles
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Top of the English Incline
The England - Wales border goes through the middle of this large quarry. At one time two separate companies worked here, one English, one Welsh, each with their own tramways for getting the stone down from the quarry.
This is the top of the incline on the English side, which became the only one to operate when the companies eventually combined.
Descending full wagons pulled empty ones back up by a cable with the speed regulated via the big drum in the wheelhouse. The figure with the lever is the brake man, although apparently the job was often done by youngsters. If the cable snapped they had a few seconds to get to another lever which would divert the trucks off the incline half way down. If they didn't make it, as they sometimes didn't, then..err..oops.
For a concise overview of the quarry history this pre visit info for teachers is pretty good. http://www.llanymynech.org.uk/html/1d_history.html
Image: © Des Blenkinsopp
Taken: 25 Apr 2012
0.14 miles
4
Route of railway track to lime kilns on Llanymynech Hill
The track was a cableway, with full trucks pulling up empty ones. Now it is a footpath passing information boards about the lime industry
Image: © David Smith
Taken: 23 Apr 2015
0.14 miles
5
Quarry face, Llanymynech Hill
Information boards by the footpaths through this area give visitors details of the mining and lime industry
Image: © David Smith
Taken: 23 Apr 2015
0.15 miles
6
Tunnels under A483, Llanymynech
These tunnels were for the railway tracks used by trucks carrying limestone from the quarries on Llanymynech Hill to the Hoffmann Kiln
Image: © David Smith
Taken: 23 Apr 2015
0.16 miles
7
Foreigner Wall. Llanymynech quarries
Another steep and intimidating wall in the quarry at Llanymynech; this hosts a variety of desperately hard routes.
Image: © Richard Law
Taken: 16 Oct 2010
0.16 miles
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Grid Iron wall, Llanymynech quarries
One of the steeper and cleaner sections of Llanymynech, Grid Iron wall holds a series of hard routes, well protected by bolts.
Image: © Richard Law
Taken: 16 Oct 2010
0.16 miles
9
Restored winding drum, Llanymynech Hill
The limestone quarried on the hill was loaded into trucks nearby. When full, they descended the track to the limestone kiln, bringing back the empty truck from below. The winding drum had a brake to control the speed of movement
Image: © David Smith
Taken: 23 Apr 2015
0.16 miles
10
Tramway Bridge
This is at the foot of the incline from the quarry where wagons went under the main road on route to the canal and railway. One arch for up, one for down.
Image: © Des Blenkinsopp
Taken: 24 Apr 2012
0.16 miles