Uploaded August 2025 | Updated September 2026, 1 week ago

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Is this the only Welsh quarry with a surviving Blondin cableway? Probably.
This is a good source visitsnowdonia.info/map?f%5B0%5D=welsh_slate_area%3A3
A facinating area to explore. My regret is that I missed the Cornish pumping engine at the Dorethea quarry that kept the pit dry for so many years and is apparently still largely intact. I'll be back. . . .
00:00 Overview
02:52 Llyn Nantlle Uchaf
03:08 Dorethea Quarry
03:46 Talysarn Hall
07:51 Top road - CIlgwyn Quarry
09:42 Pen yr Orsedd Quarry
11:48 Surviving 'Blondin'
14:05 First Winding House
18:25 Blondin (closer)
18:39 Second Winding House
21:27 Top buildings
27:12 Middle buildings
33:22 Lower buildings - dispatch