George does't always get on here early, but one of the guys up at the quarry used to go there with his dad, who worked there. Apparently there were several tunnels like that, most now underwater. Keith said it goes in about three hundred yards, and were exploratory in nature as they were used to seek out more slate, and where and how the veins lay in the strata.
From what he said, this was one of the most dangerous quarries in the world, because a lot of the material lay vertically oriented. In tunnels like that, and in the main pit, he said that chunks of material literally could 'explode' from the face of the side because of the pressures behind it.
As a footnote, SWMBO's grandfather died in that quarry. A mining car broke loose and crushed him. He lived for a few hours before expiring, about three months before her mother was born in 1913- just over 100 years ago.
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