Pont y Pandy Slate Mill

Another landscape from the archives.

I was struggling to find inspiration when we visited this abandoned and derelict slate mill at Pont y Pandy in North Wales, UK. The light wasn't really right for making an image from the remains of the building and I turned around to leave.

Fortunately, the late February afternoon sunshine delivered just at the right time and I was able to frame this image of the stream flowing though the area from under a stone bridge.

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Pont y Pandy Stream

Afternoon sun on the stream at Pont y Pandy slate mill near Porthmadog in North Wales, UK.

Pont y Pandy mill, also known as Ynysypandy and Nant y Pandy, near Porthmadog, was built to process slate slabs from Gorseddau Quarry about 2 miles away. A pandy is a fulling mill used in wool production and could refer to an earlier usage of the site. The slate mill was sited here due to lack of a suitable water supply at the quarry, a water wheel being used to operate the machinery. Pont y Pandy is an extraordinary building and looks more like a monastery than an industrial unit. The building is now in the care of CADW and is freely open to the public.

Source: penmorfa.com
http://www.penmorfa.com/Slate/pontypandy.html

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