oakeley quarry造句

• Oakeley quarry was located on the north side of Allt-fawr.
• In 1970 the main Oakeley Quarries closed, and Cwmorthin was sold off separately.
• Bron Guallt, built in 1895, was the Oakeley Quarry shipping agent's house.
• The Oakeley quarries were avid users of technology, allowing them to reduce their costs and increase their production.
• On the northern slope of Allt-fawr is the Oakeley Quarry, the world's largest underground slate mine.
• Between 1885 and 1888, Daniel Adamson and Co . supplied four narrow gauge steam locomotives to the Oakeley Quarry in Blaenau Ffestiniog, North Wales.
• Unable to pay the resulting fine, the Welsh Slate Company gave up its lease and the Oakeley Quarry was finally amalgamated into a single operation.
• Following the 1900 sale of Cwmorthin, it was taken over by Oakeley Quarry, working the same slate veins but from the other side of the Allt-fawr ridge.
• Within a decade, three separate slate quarries were operating on Allt-fawr and these eventually amalgamated to form Oakeley Quarry which would become the largest underground slate mine in the world.
• Planning permission for this was not granted and in the later 1970s most of the remaining mine infrastructure was removed for use in the Oakeley Quarry, also owned by the Ffestiniog Slate Company.
• When the hooter of Oakeley Quarry sounded for the end of work at 4pm, there was a rush downhill to catch the bus from Bethania, along the valley to the other villages.
• Votty & Bowydd was acquired in 1933 by the owners of Oakeley Quarry . it continued to be worked until 1962, when it was closed down, and the company was liquidated in 1964.
• The Oakeley Quarry records show that the tramway was refurbished in 1936 / 37, but at the onset of the Second World War in 1939, Cwmorthin was mothballed, and traffic on the lower section ceased.
• The Oakeley Quarries were powered by electricity and compressed air, and a plan to drain the flooded North Vein workings was drawn up in 1932, which would allow power supplies to be brought through from the Oakeley side.
• The leaseholds for the Upper and Middle quarries expired in 1878 and the landowner, W . E . Oakeley refused to renew them, instead consolidating the two quarries into a single operation, the "'Oakeley Quarry " '.
• Cwmorthin Quarry was bought by Oakeley Quarry, after which they were connected underground, allowing it to be worked from the Oakeley side, and the absence of Oakeley men to operate the inclines was eventually resolved when Cadwaladr Roberts was given permission to operate them.
• Because the chambers were filled with rubbish as they were developed, there was little danger of roof collapses or the failure of pillars between adjacent chambers, which had caused disaster in nearby Blaenau Ffestiniog, when over six million tons of rock had collapsed into the Oakeley Quarry during the winter of 1882 / 83, fortunately without loss of life.
• In 2007 it was purchased by Kevin Lagan ( an Irish businessman who is the owner and chairman of the Lagan Group ) and renamed Welsh Slate Ltd . Kevin Lagan and his son Peter ( MD of Lagan Building Solutions Ltd ) are now directors of Welsh Slate Ltd which also includes the Oakeley quarry in Blaenau Ffestiniog, the Cwt Y Bugail quarry and the Pen Yr Orsedd quarry.