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[Pic 10] Cwt y Bugail Slate Quarry - Slate hut on waste tips (Sept 1987)
Finally, out on the waste tips sits this fine (dug out style) slate hut. Note the chimney at the far end. Such shelters (and a warm fire!) would have been invaluable up here in
this wild exposed location during the freezing grip of winter. Infact Cwt y Bugail was often closed (sometimes for several months at a time) because of bad wintry weather throughout its working
existence. Unfortunately the roof on this hut is now collapsing but the rest of the structure is still intact.
Notes:-
A photo of the traction engine boiler (since removed from the site) exists in Alun John Richards 'Fragments of Mine & Mill' book (Gwasg Carreg Gwalch 2002) along with four other
Cwt y Bugail relateted photos.
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