Abercorris

Well worth visiting!

These intricate concrete models of Italian buildings are just behind the brick museum shown in other photos on this website.

This device is used to move the locomotive from one track to the other so that it can run round its train.

Slate everywhere: in the quarry tips, the buildings and the fences too.

The rockface of the old Abercwmeiddaw quarry, closed in 1938.

The back lane between Corris Uchaf and Corris village has been closed to traffic, because of this collapse near the house named Y Castell.

The creation and lifelong passion of the late Mark Bourne, the strange collection of replicas in concrete of European buildings and structures is a hugely arresting sight. See Link for more of the story. Although the garden itself is now closed to visitors, you can see plenty from here on the adjacent public footpath.

The creation and lifelong passion of the late Mark Bourne, the strange collection of replicas in concrete of European buildings and structures is a hugely arresting sight. See Link for more of the story. Although the garden itself is now closed to visitors, you can see plenty from here on the adjacent public footpath.

The last of the late Mark Bourne's amazing creations, as you ascend the public footpath into the forestry above. Though the majority of his fantasy collection of miniature buildings - a poor man's Portmeirion, perhaps - was Italian in theme and subject, there are plenty of other influences at work: a fine collection of bricks from works throughout NE Wales especially, and here a 3D map of the geology of the Cadair Idris area and a memorial to poet Wilfred Owen. See Link for more background to his extraordinary project. Although the garden itself is now closed to visitors, you can see plenty from here on the adjacent public footpath.