Gwynedd Slate Landscape

[ChrisJC]

Wow, that sounds dangerous, a far safer option  :doubt: would be Snowdon Mountain Railway and something like this

Reminds me of the lunatic who drove up the Snowdon Railway track in his 4x4 a few years ago. Not once, but twice.

That was a stroke of genius! Mind you, I think they threw the book at him.

Chris.

 

[sinker]

That was a stroke of genius!

In a Frontera....!

 

[RobinGriffiths]

That was a stroke of genius! Mind you, I think they threw the book at him.

Chris.

It was a pretty enterprising endeavour to be fair.

 

[Paul Marvin]

It's not a railway track, but has anyone tried skateboarding down Winnats?

I bet they have , after all they jump of the top with parachute on .

 

[Fishes]

It's not a railway track, but has anyone tried skateboarding down Winnats?

I thought a kids scooter was the way to go down winnats.

 

[ttxela2]

There's always one cock who wants to piss on the fire:

https://www.theguardian.com/uk-news/2021/jul/30/the-links-between-welsh-slate-and-slavery

As if that's going to change anything?, should we fill in the quarries and demolish all vestiges of the industry as some sort of reparation?

Chris.

Presumably though unlike statues to individuals the UNESCO status is at least in part in recognition of all the workers, the technologies and the changes to the landscape that remain representing that part of history rather than one particular individual who was in charge and did other stuff that was questionable?

I imagine you wouldn't have to look far down the list of World Heritage sites to find locations with connections to some right old historical b*stards!

 

[Cantclimbtom]

I'd speculate that the removal of Liverpool Maritime Mercantile City would have in part been the  recent emphasis on historical associations with slavery, as much as factor as Everton's stadium (the given reason) in the current scramble to virtue-signal

 

[NeilC]

I'd speculate that the removal of Liverpool Maritime Mercantile City would have in part been the  recent emphasis on historical associations with slavery, as much as factor as Everton's stadium (the given reason) in the current scramble to virtue-signal

Very unlikely, I would have thought. World Heritage status is not an endorsement of any aspect of the site's past, as evidenced by the fact that Auschwitz Birkenau is included in the list.

 

[Digit]

Heritage is Heritage, some of it good some of it bad, but it all shapes who we are now.  Trying to change history/heritage by hiding bits of it away is a bad idea, you cannot learn from things that are  hidden away (and with the passage of time then forgotten).

 

[sinker]

I'd speculate that the removal of Liverpool Maritime Mercantile City would have in part been the  recent emphasis on historical associations with slavery, as much as factor as Everton's stadium (the given reason) in the current scramble to virtue-signal

Nah, they're greedy and as soon as the city became prosperous they decided to throw eyesores up all over the place, catch the wave and milk it dry.
World Heritage Status was just expedient at the time when they had nothing else to trade on; now its booming again and they're all born-again yuppies and "greed is good" then heritage gets kicked to the kerb.
The bubble will burst and it'll be back to being professional victims again.
Human nature is a fickle thing but money talks eh?