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Photos and reports from Industrial Heritage Group visits
Anson Engine Museum, 21 September 2007 | Cheddleton and the Caldon Canal, 16 July 2010
Members of Chester U3A's Industrial Heritage Group at the site of an old smelting works marked on the Ordnance Survey map as a sheep fold

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Members of Chester U3A's Industrial Heritage Group at the site of an old smelting works marked on the Ordnance Survey map as a sheep fold
Llangynog village centre

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Llangynog village centre

Visit to Llangynog, 21 May 2010

The Group visited Llangynog (Montgomeryshire) to investigate some heritage sites from the lead mining industry in the area. The visit, in wonderful sunny weather and in a beautiful and spectacular mountain landscape not previously visited by most of us, was led by Peter Griffin.

Make sure that you all keep your helmets on!

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Make sure that you all keep your helmets on! Photo and report by Terry Clarke.
Car deck of Mersey Tunnel from an unusual perspective

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Car deck of Mersey Tunnel from an unusual perspective. Photo and report by Terry Clarke.

Visit to Mersey Tunnels Installations, 21 November 2009

On 21 November the Industrial Heritage Group visited the Mersey Tunnels Installations from the company's Art Deco headquarters building at Pier Head, Liverpool. After a video introduction, the Group was taken first to the Control Centre for the two Mersey Tunnels and then descended steep staircases to view the underground facilities. The enormous fans used to control the air flow through the Queensway Tunnel were demonstrated. The Group was able to walk along below the road deck to visit the new Emergency Refuges, and then had the unique opportunity to emerge at road deck level to get the maintenance engineers' view of passing traffic!


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