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Photographs of Wrysgan Slate Quarry uploaded by Miles

Adit Portal	Looking Towards Incline Head	Remains of Incline Engine	Incline Gear on Ground
Looking Down Incline	Frame of a Dressing Machine	Remains of the Mill	High Adit with Daylight Inside
Small Chamber Breaking to Daylight	Chamber with Window	Roof Collapse	Gaping Drop
Massive Chamber	Looking up the Incline	Looking down the incline from the dam road	Remains of a belt-driven Pillar Drill
High Chamber	Wrestling with a camera	Inside a daylit chamber	Looking down into a chamber
Exploring a small chamber	Looking into a chamber	Massive Chamber	Panorama

Photographs of Wrysgan Slate Quarry uploaded by SteveM

Warning	Ceiling Slab 'Of Death!'	Celing slab 2	Climbing up Level 2 to 3

Photographs of Wrysgan Slate Quarry uploaded by corin

Now repaired and goes right across.	Top entrance - Three levels down	Exteme Scrabble in context	Readable Scrabble

Photographs of Wrysgan Slate Quarry uploaded by Trapp

head of the main incline	a view from cwmorthin	daylight
Top of the Incline	Tip	tunnel	tired

Photographs of Wrysgan Slate Quarry uploaded by siabodman

Miles in Wrysgan	Through the Tunnel	The Man-Way	Inside Wrysgan

Photographs of Wrysgan Slate Quarry uploaded by Goafed

Incline head	Winding gear	Incline tunnel	Winding cog
Incline top	Floor 8 view	Slate still in situ floor 7	Floor 7
Floor 8 window	Floor 7 Looking down	Floor 7	Floor 7
Floor 5-ish	Floor 2	Floor 1 adit

Photographs of Wrysgan Slate Quarry uploaded by Alan L

Derelict mill building 16/10/08	Level 2 chamber break-out 16/10/08	Level 5 entrance chamber 16/10/08	Level 5 entrance chamber 16/10/08
Level 5 entrance chamber 16/10/08	Level 4 chamber, huge boulders from roof fall 16/10/08	Level 6 chamber 16/10/08	Level 6, huge inclined chamber 16/10/08
Level 6 chamber 16/10/08	Mill level. Exit tramway 16/10/08	Former lorry engine 16/10/08	Remains of steam engine 16/10/08
Belt drive-shaft	Derelict wagon 16/10/08

Photographs of Wrysgan Slate Quarry uploaded by llay101

Wrysgan/Cwmorthin Long Haul Trip 2011

Photographs of Wrysgan Slate Quarry uploaded by Legacy_User

	Incline	Floor 1	Floor 1
The entrance to floor 4 from floor 3	Level 4	Floor 5 near the drum house	Floor 5 near the drum house
Floor 5 near the drum house	Floor 5 near the drum house	Floor 5 adit - near the drum house	The barracks
The reservoir	An adit into floor 6 near the reservoir	The ventilating adit	Looking into one of the floor 6 caverns
Another view of the barracks	Looking through the incline	Looking down the incline	The top of the incline
The remains at the top of the incline	The remains at the top of the incline	The remains of a building on the side of the tip

Photographs of Wrysgan Slate Quarry uploaded by dwarrowdelf

Looking towards the short tunnel at head of Wrysgan's well preserved external incline	Old quarry buildings and equipment forlorn on a misty day	A misty day at Wrysgan quarry	Large chamber opening to a "window" Upper floor of Wrysgan quarry.
At top of vertical descent into massive chamber!