Andrew
I will reply to you off list.
Graham
-------------------------------------------------Graham Levins
Secretary
Welsh Mines Preservation Trust
1 Stonecrop Close
Crawley
West Sussex
RH11 9EP
01293-510567
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----- Original Message -----
From: "Andrew Hurrell" <[log in to unmask]>
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Sent: Wednesday, March 12, 2003 6:24 PM
Subject: Dorothea Quarry & Beam Engine
I have been receiving news over the last couple of weeks that the Dorothea
Beam Engine is under a greatly increase threat.
Planning applications put in by the sites owner have been turned down at
appeal and either as a direct result of this or by the owner withdrawing
cooperation, the £40,000 or so, of grant money for conservation has been
lost.
The local historian and campaigner for the engine, Dr Gwynfor Jones, has
asked me to circulate this news and his request for people to write to the
local authority.
Letters should be polite and encouraging, tinged with worry, but without
putting the officials under pressure (we do not want to upstep anybody at
this stage), and should make reference to the importance of the
Dorothea Quarry site in terms of I.A. and possibly as a visitor attraction.
Letters should be sent to the Chief Executive and the Chief of Planning of
Gwynedd County Council, County offices, Caernarfon, Gwynedd, with cc's to
the local Welsh Assembly Member Dafydd Wigley AM, 8 Castle Street,
Caernarfon.
I hope this is not an unsuitable request to make through the list, I would
not ask for this kind of help for anything less than the Dorothea site.
Regards
Andrew
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