Questions about mining in NE Wales
Last updated: 20 June 2007
Q: Julie from Afonwen: "Does anybody know if there was ever any mining on Moel y Parc, Afonwen? When I walk on Moel y Parc, I see what could be the remains of spoil heaps, and also metal sticking out of the ground that looks as if once it was the housing unit for some kind of machinery. Would love to know what it was, and when it operated. Anybody know?"
Q: Karen from Colwyn Bay: "Can someone tell me where Elm Colliery was and was there a disaster there around the start of World War I. I was told it was around the Hawarden area or possibly Chester."
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julie afonwen
hi again,that sounds a good explanation, next time i go up, i will have a closer look.
Elvet Pierce, Lixwm
There may have been some small scale digging for local use, but it is unlikely that there was ever "real" quarrying. It is possible that what you have seen are remains of dugouts made by the military during its long use of the area for training. Certainly in the mid-1980s one excercise involved the building of several dug-in guard posts, using available material, mainly scrap metal and soil, which have since fallen in leaving just what you describe.
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