Rhosydd Slate Quarry SH664461
Photographs of Rhosydd Slate Quarry uploaded by Miles
 Air Shaft
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 Big Chambers in the Twyll
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 The No.9 Adit Portal
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 Air Shaft
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 Dangerous Air Shaft
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 Barracks in Winter
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 No.4 Adit Portal (blocked)
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 The No.9 Adit Portal
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 The big collapse
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 Wheel
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 Chamber
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 Big Chamber
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 Big Chamber
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 Rhosydd Chapel
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 Slate Fence
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 No9
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 No.9 Adit Portal
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Photographs of Rhosydd Slate Quarry uploaded by SimplyExploring
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Photographs of Rhosydd Slate Quarry uploaded by Allan
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 No_9 adit
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Photographs of Rhosydd Slate Quarry uploaded by M1EYO
 Sled
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 Trwnc
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Photographs of Rhosydd Slate Quarry uploaded by edus1
 Dam Valve at top of lost incline
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 Dam Valve pipe at top of lost incline
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 Top of collapsed incline.
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Photographs of Rhosydd Slate Quarry uploaded by Alan Clogwyn
 Rhosydd Floor 9
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 Wheelpit
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Photographs of Rhosydd Slate Quarry uploaded by AndyC
 New collapse of Rhosyd Mines
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 Rhosydd - New collapse?
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 Waterwheel remains
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 Shaft with pipe
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 Rhossyd - Dam at Llyn Cwm Corsiog
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 Rhosydd - chapel
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 Rhosydd - wheel in mill remains
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 Rhosydd - adit entrance
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 Rhosydd - level 9
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 Rhosydd - Looking over to barracks/mill
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 Rhosydd level 9
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 Rhosydd - waterwheel remains
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 Rhosydd - old wagon
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 Rhosydd - Level 9
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 Rhosydd - arch
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 Rhosydd
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 Rhosydd
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 Rhosydd - approach No 9 adit.
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 Rhosydd No9 Adit
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 Rhosydd - manager's house
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 Rhosydd - Manager's house
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 Rhosydd - Leat and pit
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 Rhosydd - Unfinished wheel pit
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 Rhosydd - unfinished wheel pit
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 Rhosydd - looking down on No9 level
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Photographs of Rhosydd Slate Quarry uploaded by mwynwr
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Photographs of Rhosydd Slate Quarry uploaded by estwdjhn
 Incline drum
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 9 Adit
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 Main incline from the bottom
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 Abandoned wagon
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 Abandoned wagon
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 Slab wagon
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 Remains of a wagon on the tramway
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 tramway
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 Lorry
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Photographs of Rhosydd Slate Quarry uploaded by Speedycaver
 5 to 9 Incline winding gear
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 5 to 9 Incline winding gear
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 5 to 9 Incline winding gear
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 5 to 9 Incline
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 4 Adit dam valves
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 4 Adit Valves
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Photographs of Rhosydd Slate Quarry uploaded by Alan L
 - View of level 9 from level 5 waste tip
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 Level 9 from level 5 waste tip
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 , Level 3 mill
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 - Big Twll Chambers
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 - Precarious walls
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 - Level 9 adit, entrance to the mine
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 - level 9
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 Rhosydd Tramway - Incline Brakesman's Shelter
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 Rhosydd Tramway - Incline Brakesman's Shelter
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 Rhosydd Tramway - Incline Drumhouse
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 Rhosydd Tramway - View from top of incline
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 Rhosydd Tramway - Curved Embankment
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 Rhosydd Tramway - Curved Embankment
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 - Barracks
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 - Barracks
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Photographs of Rhosydd Slate Quarry uploaded by meaty
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Photographs of Rhosydd Slate Quarry uploaded by Legacy_User
 Converted lorry chassis
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 Point blade
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Photographs of Rhosydd Slate Quarry uploaded by busa12311
 Rhosydd chapel
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 inside no9 adit
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 very very long no9 adit
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 old wheel pit although a wheel was never fitted apparently
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 view back down the valley with cwmorthin in the distance
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 view across to cwmorthin from rhosydd with rhosydd chapel at bottom by the lone tree.
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 back down path from rhosydd towards cwmorthin
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 looking up at one of rhosydds waste tips
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 Rhosydd chapel
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 inside the chapel (what a terrible shame)
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Photographs of Rhosydd Slate Quarry uploaded by Daggers666
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Photographs of Rhosydd Slate Quarry uploaded by dwarrowdelf
 Old quarry building: vicinity of Rhosydd
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 Buildings and remains of equipment at Rhosydd
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 Old quarry buildings: vicinity of Rhosydd
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 Remains of old quarry building
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 Surface remains - Rhosydd
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 9 adit: The longest, deepest and last to be constructed at Rhosydd, it is the main drainage and haulage route out of the underground workings.
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 Remains of the adit 9 horizonal sheave
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 Shall I brave that long wet tunnel? - The famous no 9 adit
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 Starting off along no. 9 adit
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 Vicinity of 5/9 incline
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 Detail of trackwork not far from 9 adit
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 Looking towards 9 adit The bright speck in the centre of the photo is daylight:- At 2221 ft from its entrance to the inner sheave of the haulage system, 9 adit is possibly the longest in the Ffestiniog area
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 Another view of no 9 adit
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 The no 9 adit appears to slice through a large boulder as it begins it's long journey to eventually intercept the slate veins
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 Slate fence somewhere between Rhosydd and Cwmorthin
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 One of the many uses of slate: A lovely slate fence between Rhosydd and Cwmorthin and characteristic of the area.
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