Welsh ‘car grave’ cave ‘at risk’ after social media boom

An old flooded slate mine used as a dumping ground for cars in north Wales, the eeriness of which attracts Instagram photo seekers, is in danger of being destroyed by visitors trashing the site, it has been claimed.
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The flooded cavern, part of the Gaewern slate mine, became a dumping ground for old cars, TVs, microwaves and other rubbish after its closure in the 1970s. It was rediscovered by urban explorers who posted stunning photographs of the scrap illuminated by shafts of sunlight, leading to others braving a perilous 20-metre (65ft) descent and using inflatable dinghies to cross the lake to reach the scrap.

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34 comments
  1. Everything that’s “dumbed” down there comes from the earth and the earth will reclaim it the word rubbish was invented to make people feel guilty about putting unwanted things somewhere that someone else didn’t want there lol

  2. Sick to Death seeing this..i go in mines alot and i always bring someone elses rubbish up with me….STOP Leaving your Rubbish and never do Graffitti to put your name up.. so outside there own house we will dump Rubbish and we can put our names on YOUR Wall Right next to your Front Door…And 28 Days latter,,, SHAME ON YOU.

  3. The cleaners are amazing for doing this. But imagine those disgusting people driving their rubbish and tipping into the quarry instead of taking it to the local refuse. The people dumping cars these are seriously irresponsible and ignorant.

  4. There in is the problem with the Internet and the youth of today, urban explorings moto has always been, "take nothing but photos, leave nothing but footprints".

  5. the litter is one thing, but personally id say leave the graffiti. We treasure graffiti left in caves by people from the past and rightly view it as a highly personal glimpse into the lives of ordinary people who otherwise have been forgotten by the history books. Why not leave some for people of the future to treasure as well

  6. I understand the graffiti (which is people simply saying, "i name have made it here") as people have been engraving or creating monuments of their exploration since the stone ages, the rubish they leave behind on the other hand is a problem.

  7. It's an old slate mine, but now it must be saved forever and ever amen?

    Honestly, in 500 years the graffiti and old cars would have been of more historic interest and value than the mine. They should have been preserved. Shame on modernity.

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