by alastair | Oct 10, 2014 | News, North Wales
Field Notes The closest bridge is marked on Ordnance Survey maps as a Roman Bridge, others suggest that this is actually 17th Century, albeit with Roman origins. The Roman Bridge and the more recent bridge cross Afon Machno, close to an abandoned mill downstream of...
by alastair | Jun 3, 2014 | News, North Wales
Field Notes One from a whole workshop full of abandoned slate cutting saws on the Australia level of the Dinorwic Quarry above Llanberis in North Wales. Dinorwic Quarry, started in the late 1700’s at its peak employed over 3,000 men, with many of them living on...
by alastair | Apr 19, 2014 | News, North Wales
I had the chance to visit the Dinorwic Quarries in North Wales on Good Friday. I wanted to go back there having been in the lower levels of the quarries whilst on a work shop with Richard Childs. Unfortunately due to the weather, we didn’t get a chance to...
by alastair | Feb 1, 2014 | News, North Wales
….or does it? I posted on Twitter the question of “Is the bit on the right distracting?” I was half expecting the responses to be a bit like those if you ask “Does my bum look big in this?” (NB: Men, the correct answer is...
by alastair | Jan 30, 2014 | News, North Wales
I spent the last weekend in North Wales in and around Llanberis on a workshop with Richard Childs. Whilst the weather was very much against us, we still managed to get out on all days to explore the unique man made environment of disused slate mines and quarries in...
