Votty & Bowydd quarry is a major slate quarry in the town of Blaenau Ffestiniog, North Wales. It was one of the major users of the Ffestiniog Railway. It opened in 1870 In the quarry's peak years arou
The remains of the main cable-worked-incline flight through Votty & Bowydd quarry
Method used for underground slate quarrying in the Blaenau Ffestiniog region
Vulcan Foundry 0-4-0T locomotive "Kelso" of 1878, later renamed "Taffy"
Dorothea quarry is a disused slate quarry in the Nantlle Valley area in North Wales. It covers a large area near the village of Talysarn and contains three flooded deep lakes.
A flooded pit in the quarry in July 2010