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@@paulmckeon9561 thanks, glad you enjoyed the video 👌

@@paulmckeon9561 thanks Paul 😊 Just wish I wasn't so busy working away and could upload more videos at the moment😩

@@shonkytours2039 Love to join you one day mate when you've the time, think it's amazing what you do.

Gwaith Mango is pretty straight forward, appart from the hidden entrance, but this mine is tough to find, I couldn't even find it myself in the dark and I'd been there loads 🙈😂

Yes, this is one of my favourite mines. You've got bryneglwys one side which is amazing and hendrewallog otherside of valley, which is even better!! Even found a 1758 carved graffiti😍, I'll try upload proper video soon

​@@shonkytours2039can't wait for the whole video man, this the one the talylyn railway was built for?

When they take the slate out of the walls to get easy access to slate, which will probably lead to future roof collapses. Usually done if mine was about to close

Yes as usual 😅

Yes with my girlfriend, you probably did, I thought I did say hi 🙈😂, because I did say hi to the other person you were with.

@@shonkytours2039 Ha. No worries. I was solo that time. Took a Romanian couple on a tour, visiting from Manchester. I think they went on to do a loop of the buildings above ground.

Thanks Paul, glad you enjoy the videos, keeps me making them for everyone 🙏

To be honest, I don't use any safety measures 🙈😂. I'm just well experienced, been doing it for years, so know my way around slate mines and metal mines quite well. I'll rig myself to ropes if going to be doing something dangerous, but all in all the only accident I've had is fractured ribs after slipping in snow covered slate 🙈

It's fine when I re watch video on my normal TV so the sounds definitely uploaded OK with the video 🤷🏼‍♀️

I only get audio through my right earbud at the introduction and ending too, it has only happened in the last couple of videos, and only having 20% hearing out of my right ear i can hardly hear 🫣 😂 but anyway another fantastic video chris 👍

Was used in steel production as well as paint, but I'm sure there's other uses as well 😊

Thanks Andrew 🙏

I'm not sure where you mean, but yes, I've been in most adits around the area, even the ones on otherside of mill where big flooded quarry is

Ive known about the mines behind Barmouth, but have never visited them, only St David's gold mine a few miles from Barmouth in Bontddu. I definitely won't let videos get in the way of my relationship, just I'll have to produce a video every other week instead of weekly, or make 2 the weekend Emily works. 😊

Thanks for your kind words mrstrong 🙏. Makes producing videos worthwhile 😊

@@shonkytours2039 Btw how long to walk there from Blaenau ? looks like an interesting route.

@@Mr44strong from Maenofferen it's about half hour walk, but if you drive up to Manod mine and park there it's about 15 minute walk

@@shonkytours2039 Many thanks will do the longer route and take in the scenery ! 👍

@@Mr44strong if you walk up the incline that goes up from Maenofferen mill, you can stay on the Rhiwbach tramway which will take you directly to Rhiwbach, past a nice lake and also Cwt-Y-Bugail slate mine, which in itself a nice mine to visit, especially if you can climb down to the bottom level. Very picturesque especially in a sunny day when sun shines in through the open chambers and gives spectacular lighting for the bottom level and the flooded chamber 👌

I don't do trips, but I will take anyone underground if they want to go, gives me an excuse to go underground myself 👌😅

@@shonkytours2039 If I got in contact sometime would you mind taking me in rhosydd mine. I would love go in to look at some chambers but bit worried doing it by myself. I went in there last at 14 years old. Very long time ago. Parts of it were unsafe back then. Alot of lower flooded levels. I remember the entrance had barbed wire over it. It was flooded the main tunnel, walked down it for ages an ages. Then came to huge cavern on left hand side. It would mean alot to me to go back in there.

@@chrisdeakin4222 yes, no worries, get in touch when you want to go, message me on messenger and I'll send my phone number 👌 facebook.com/profile.php?id=100039799521096

That's absolutely brilliant news thanks so much. Would love to do it again. See all the things I remember from when I was only 14 years old in 1988. Thanks again. Will be intouch soon. In north wales from 17th of May for a week's holiday. Will be intouch.

I love your vids. Always watch them. I was at st davids college llandudno back in the 80s 4 years an also went to eirias for one year at 12 years old. Lived at colwyn bay. Rhosydd mine is brilliant. Would love go back in there but darnt go it alone. Is most of main bits of the mine fairly safe like main tunnel adit 9. I remember at 14 yrs old with a group my age clambering up steep hills to get to the mine in the rain. Once in there a long trip down adit 9 in water. Caverns to the left huge. I remember where it forks off left an right but vague memories after that. Some flooded shafts with blue ish water very deep, an a deep lake. We had crawl under a gap known as cheese press in rhosydd then over a large drop cables an harness to explore chambers over the other side. Eventually to get out we climbed up old slate heap, an out in the open. I think that must have been west twill. I'll contact you one day if we could have a little walk in there.

Thanks for the kind words Sue 😊, I don't realise most have probably never been to this mine, so enjoy seeing it, but compared to other mines it's quite bare, and having visited loads of times, I probably take the place for granted 🙈

@@shonkytours2039 To me even if a mine seems empty it is still filled with the spirits of the miners carrying on their daily toil. Thanks again Chris, much love. xx