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photo: aerial ropeway tower
Photograph © Executors of the late Moses Griffith

Ropeway tower and bucket

Wooden ropeway tower and one of the ropeway buckets near the lower terminus.

photo: aerial ropeway tower  

detail from main photo

The tower is a slender pyramid structure with cross and diagonal bracing. The balance arms for the carrying sheeves are mounted some way down from the top of the structure.

photo: aerial ropeway bucket

detail from main photo

Ropeway bucket

Photograph taken by Moses Griffith sometime between 1924 and 1941 when he was the tenant at Egryn.

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