The Porth Wen Brickworks
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- Опубліковано 15 жов 2024
- In this video we visit Anglesey North Wales. We visit the Porth Wen Brickworks a Victorian / Edwardian brickworks that specialised in making Silica bricks from the local Quartzite quarry. These specialised bricks were used in the steel industry for lining blast furnaces. This former industrial site is now an abandoned industrial site. Its a scheduled monument according to English heritage. The brickworks is a unique industrial heritage site as it still has intact brick kilns, boilers, and industrial chimneys. Situated in Cemaes bay in North wales we go on an urbex adventure to this abandoned industrial site.
Opening music : Simulacra, by Aurora B Polaris. / aurorabpolaris
The drone footage at the beginning made the whole site look like a model, fab place
The UK is beautiful when the sun shines
Yes it needs to shine more though
@@MartinZero Let's start pumping out some CO2 because there are no signs of this global warming stuff around my way
Brilliant opening. I remember the Radio 4 shipping forecasts from when I was a child. Very important when we went fishing. I'm surprised so much of Porth Wen still stands. Time and tide each claim their prize.
Never more amazed to see how far people are willing to go with a spray paint can morons Great video Martin 👍
Well done, Martin. You travelled over to my part of the world. I live about 10 minutes away. Not far away is the old copper mine at Parys Mountain. There is an underground group there who take adventurous people like you to see the mine workings. The whole site above ground is amazing to see with the great opencast that was used in a very old Doctor Who episode. I have an American friend who tries to come over each year. He is a descendant of the copper mines manager. The mining of copper goes back to Roman times but the more recent work happened in the 1800s. It's quite a story if you fancy following it up.
That definitely sounds worth a visit Keith
Crazy, this is how the gold & silver mines operated mountainside in Colorado & Nevada. Such a cool place...
Old world, so someone must have taken their knowledge over there.
Wonderful location. Absolutely a cinematic experience. The drone shots and peeking in the crannies :) Always with the fantastic historic documentation! Top of the line Martin, and glad to see James doing well. I did miss the tea :) Thanks for getting us out there!
Thanks James, yeah we never took the flask
Really is about time we started to tackle the issue of graffiti so called artists.
That's my rant over! 😡
hear hear , it was horrible was nt it
Apparently it's not vandalism or graffiti any more. It's 'Street art'. Street art my arse!
And tattoos are not 'body art' , they're tattoos.
(my rant over!)
They always have to spoil places with their stupid tags.
Yeah, so bloody annoying
Art is creative. Graffiti is destructive. It's Anti-Art!
What a beautiful place. I think that building with the broken pillars in the middle could be been a drying room. When bricks are made they are wet and need to be dried else they explode in the kiln.
Ahh ok, I must admit I had to guess at that bit
Wow, Sunday night on UA-cam. Lost Mines, Ghost town living and Martin Zero to put the icing on the cake. What an amazing location, thanks Martin.
Thanks Neil. Stunning location
Your channel is just one of the many gems, here on YT. Cheers!
Great video Martin, nice to see the remains of the steam engine specially made for brickworks by Thomas C Fawcett at their former Whitehouse engineering works which was in Hunslet, Leeds .they say tbe large flywheel still moves too .
Is the factory still there Dave
@@MartinZero I haven't visited Hunset Martin for some time I will find out for you, in 1972 they merged with the Bradley Craven company to become Craven Fawcett.
@@MartinZero Just found an advertisement for the Fawcett brick making machine at> www.gracesguide.co.uk/T._C._Fawcett
💜🏆💜 chicken soup to my soul! What is that German word that means sorrowful longing for someplace you've never been? Thank you for taking me to these abandoned monuments of human effort. Places such as these have been my lifelong passion!:-) 🖖💜
I was here yesterday. Absolutely beautiful place.
Absolutely stunning location Martin & James. Never knew this was in Anglesey very interesting video great job. ❤😊
That video was a tonic at the end of a long day
I used to live about five miles away , incredible place, thanks for reminding me of it again and highlighting it's history, perhaps you could have a look at nearby Amlych and the copper mountain,there's also the Angelsey railway too which is being restored by enthusiasts, again much thanks Martin
That sounds very interesting Leslie
Another super interesting location 👍
Thanks Neil and yes fab location
You should have your own TV show!! Every episode is fantastic with fabulous detail. :-)
Thank you
À great explore lads , really interesting, good see so much still there.
Fantastic Martin
Thanks Matthew
A wonderful bit of history, glad to hear it's a scheduled monument. What we need is someone with money to take it on board!
Yeah, needs saving really
Fabulous, the cove alone was picturesque, but the beehive kilns and sea walls really are uniquely attractive. What a hidden gem of a place.
Yeah, as soon as I saw a pic of it many months ago. I knew I had to go
@@MartinZero I don't blame you...
Thanks Martin Brilliant 👍👍 Keep safe Both
Good find, that one Martin...so much structural variety..
Wow another fantastic video and what a fantastic place and the weather made it too
Very lucky with weather as next day it rained heavily
Fascinating Place,Thanks Martin for the tour 👍👍
It's beautiful weather to be in Wales.
A another special episode.
Thank you, the next day it rained all day
Martin visiting my homeland, makes me want to go see the valleys again. Great spot too, interesting old site.
I will have to say that's one of the best positioned old factories from back in the day could you imagine working hard as hell inside that building and just looking out the window at that beautiful view of the ocean or just getting off from work after a hard day and just staring at that ocean it is a must have been a very amazing Place back when it was all up and going
Great watching, keep it up. So special
What a fantastic place... thanks for taking us!
Thanks Lulu
What an amazing looking place in that weather.
Yeah we were very lucky, the next day it rained heavily
Just loved this one. Beautiful place. Missed James' brew though.
What a lovely place, it’s raining today and the sun is a distant memory missing it. 🤣😂🤣😂 thanks for bringing us with you. 😋
Thank you Martin for nice video see you next week
Nature is busy recycling this beautiful relic of our past back into the Earth ! Thank you for taking us along with you Mr Martin !
Thanks Robert, it was a privilege to visit
Nice work. Knowing the past.
Fantastic, great tour Martin, thank you!
A great explore with stunning weather and yes, you are abroad, you're in Wales!
Another fantastic video from Martin 👀👌
What a beautiful place!
Stunning place 👍
Thanks Anthony
Another little gem left to rot, such a shame, a lot of history going to waste. Thanks Martin for highlighting this lost world of silica bricks, who'd have known?
Yes fantastic place Bob
You picked a belter of a day to visit. When I passed here a few years ago whilst walking the Anglesey coastal path, it was blowing 90mph winds and was absolutely pissing down with rain. Still had a strange beauty however.
Such beautiful views! Thanks for taking us along on another tour of a beautiful hidden gem! And please give James a lump or two of sugar for his excellent packing services! 😉
Thank you. James is more than happy with the occasional carrot
What a gorgeous place and a fabulous old ruin. Fascinating that nature will reclaim everything in the end it’s like it’s saying it’s not yours I only loaned it to you and now il have it back Thankyou very much.
Nice video and drone shots of a favourite place of ours - a friend used to live nearby (I live in Manchester near Cornbrook, which is how I found this video). If you take care you can climb up to the cast iron 'thing' at the top (which I think you thought was a winch) which is a stone crusher, and which I think started the processing of the rock at the bottom of the quarry incline, from where the crushed stone travelled down through those gravity chutes. It has a poem (!) cast into the side of it, reminding workers how to keep it working properly. The coastal path from Llanbadrig church (also worth a look when it is open) is a really nice way to arrive here, and you can make a circular walk out of it and go back via the (small) road. A lovely day out, and there are more industrial remains half-way along the coast path and a wartime observation post too.
Thanks
Hot Coffee And Ready To Go........
Real nice place explorers dream , what a Blue sky day 👌👍
Thanks Paul
Looks a lovely place , thanks for the video mate my Sunday sorted
What a beautiful place an absolute gem .
Refractory bricks I think they are called 🧱🧱🧱🧱🧱🧱🧱👍🏼
Ahh right never knew. Yes what a place
@@MartinZero 🧱👍🏽
Brill Martin. Great video. A real gem. Thanks for that. 👍🏴
Really incredible and picturesque place! Love the drone shots too! Surprised no tea and bickys !
Yeah we never took the flask on this one
A surprise, this one - I didn't get notified of it, and you are actually somewhere I've been. It's a great site, and there are many fascinating abandoned sites like it in Wales.
Immaculate drone footage at the start, too. Lots of prehistory in Anglesey, too. It's also where the Romans wiped out the Druids.
Thank you. It's a beautiful film. Nice one.
Thanks Brian, its one of the stand out places Ive been
Spent last week on Anglesey and was going here Thursday but the weather turned and it’d have been rubbish for photos. So this was a treat thanks. Fab video. Love a bit of flue inspection.
The quality of the photography is as good as anything I have seen.
Another great and informative video - thanks Martin and company. Let me also say that I am amazed at the nimble use of the drone 👍
Thanks Charles, Not all those shots were drone. Well the higher ones were
Great video! I love this place. I used to live a 15 minute walk away and I'd come for a walk here with my cat almost everyday after school. That's about 18 years ago now. I'm surprised to see the chimney hasn't completely fallen. The building with the eroded floor has got worse but it was always quite bad and there was a small marsh on the left of it with stepping stones which is how I got to the beach. The walk down to it can be very treacherous from the cliff top. When we get the weather here on Anglesey, with beaches like aberffraw, it's way better than being abroad. Thank you for this
I want to go back Denise
@@MartinZero you really should! You probably know this but further along the coast is the old porcelain works. I used to go there a lot too but I always got an eerie feeling there. I read up that there used to be a ‘nuns home’ right next to the beach. Not a convent but a ‘nuns home’. Unless it was some kind of slang for a ‘lady of the evening’s home. The previous owner of the house I lived in was a ship captain so I just assume he was associated with the porcelain works. My house used to be a morgue and the house next to us was a leper colony. Make of that what you will!!!
Loved it, 😍 don't come any better, Sunday night watching you taking us for a tour of a brickworks. We only go back to 1968 collecting bricks lol so one unfortunately we have never seen. A lot of brickworks were close to the sea and shipped into city's, I wonder what harbour they unloading in 🤔I guess 20 year's time most of this old works will just be rubble looking at them cracks 😳 at least you managed to get a good little video to document it. Anyway cheers fella 20 minutes well spent 👍
Thanks very much. Yeah the place is stunning
What a beautiful quiet place must of been noisy in it's day, I just love the kilns the shape of them is wonderful looks like one will fall soon that would be a shame. Thanks Martin and Donkey James looks like you had fun exploring this one.
Yeah great place, Handy to have a Donkey with you as well 😁
Stunning I love this place and visit often
Wow thank you Martin and James that was a stunningly beautiful place to go round , but can you imagine The noise and the pollution that place must’ve created in it’s Hey day
Yes such a contrast to how it would have been. Now its a place of piece
Just for a moment, I wondered why Tintin and George Michael were in Wales.
Astonishing to see how much survives and hasn't been repurposed.
Foliage. Pronounced foley-ij.
Foreign travel now? Looks great. Reminds me I must visit Anglesey.
Remarkable place and a thought-provoking and insightful video. Thankyou.
Martin, you have the best music on UA-cam. I really enjoy your electronic stuff.
Some of this video's music sort of reminded me of Tim Blake's New Jerusalem.
👍
I like a good tune
Great martin, lovely camera work.
Would love to go back in time and see this place in action!
My god so would I Daniel
Hi Martin and James,
What a hidden gem indeed, I really loved seeing this you guys, thank you so much.
Everything the surroundings, the buildings the clear water, everything was really picture beautiful.
My compliments on the image quality, well done. Loved it all. Love Roos 🙋🏻♀️🌹😊🤗
Your videos are great, I am from Manchester.
great explore Martin , great that your documenting these places of historic importance
Came here in August while staying in amlwch port, stunning place 👌
Yes its beautiful
Very atmospheric video Martin.
Thanks David. Oh glad the gadget got there ok
i would love a paddle in that beautiful clean ocean , stunning area , it got to be one of your best videos but i really enjoyed your manchester videos ,
Thanks Elizabeth. Yes that sea was lovely
Amazing and interesting video as I will never visit a real treat thank you from NZ
Cracking video Martin. Thoroughly enjoyed that 👍
Cheers Lee
We had W Slater ' s Sanitary Pipe and Brickwork near us,shut down in 81,that was our urbex before the word was thought up.We used to get in one building through broken roof and climb down a big frame with loads of grey boxes bolted on in rows......later found out it was the power house and the frame was the buzzbar😲💥
Cracking vid Mart, excellent quality too! Loved the drone footage and it showed some amazing views.
Thanks, beautiful place
I know someone that’d love this place 💙💜
Take them 👍🏻
Did not know this existed. A great find and fascinating history. Thanks for this one.
Thanks Bob, great place
Lovely neck of the woods. Great vid Martin very interesting as always. Your Nr1 Fans from Hamburg Germany
Hi Martin. I've been here and was very surprised to see you make a video on the place :) I thought the path was very overgrown and didn't get the impression that many people visited, but was absolutely stunned at how beautiful the place is.
I took some photos while I was there if anybody is interested: imgur.com/gallery/ekCdh1P
Thanks for the video lads such a fantastic place to visit so much history and beautiful clear sea. As you said nature is taking it over needs to be respected!!😎🐓🐓🐓🇬🇧💯
Thanks Christopher
Another great video Martin thanks for recording it take care
Thanks Andy
Brilliant video. Nice bit of history. Thank you 🙏 Martin 👍🏻
Thanks Marilyn
Thank you. Great video.
Thanks Martin I'm In Bed At The Moment With Covid But Looking At Your Brilliant Videos Has Helped A Lot You a James Work Well Together Stay Safe A Thanks From Blue
Quite a different setting, such a pretty place and day. AND another well done video
Thank you Joseph
Some excellent shots!
Very cool place for sure.
Cheers Bill
Incredible place, great coverage of the site. Well done Martin, big should to James too. Great work.
I went there with a friend at the beginning of the week - we came across it by suprise - it was baking hot and glorious and amazing to be honest, just amazing.
Amazing place to stumble across. I bet you were blown away
a great informative video as usual. we wild camped here the other week but after watching this , i want to go back and see it again now that i know more about it, cheers.
Classic Martin Video. Thank you!
Thanks Rob 👍🏻
Another great find. Really enjoyed it. Best Wishes Pete
Thanks Pete
Well done guys another lovely place.. Thanks for showing it.
Thanks Gerry
Perfect coffee in the garden viewing, you should be on the telly... :)
Thanks David, hope the coffee went down well
Anchored in the bay for a while a few years ago......pre graffiti days. Fascinating place.
Yeah beautiful
What a great place. Unbelievable that it was just abandoned. Pity that it hasn't been preserved as maybe a museum. Ah well - good to see you above ground for once!
Yeah I was completely blown away by the place Ruth
Amazing video really enjoyed this one loved the musical intro as well 😊
Thanks Fatima