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The Anglesey Port of Amlwch is
a beguiling place. When approaching from the land it looks like many
a typical small Welsh or Cornish mineral exporting port - which of
course it was - being built to serve the nearby Parys Mountain
Copper Mine. However, as one explores the port and moves seawards
beyond the old stone buildings are much more modern concrete
buildings and quays. After the mines closed, ship building became a
local industry. In the 1970s the modern Marine Terminal was opened
to serve the short lived oil import trade. These photographs
were taken on the morning of Saturday February 03, 2007. |
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The dry dock constructed by Nicholas Treweek in the
19th Century as part of his shipyard stands landward of the two
1970s built tug pens, now used by fishing vessels and the two
Liverpool Pilot boats which operate the Lynas Station. The pens
being built on the site of the rest of the ship yard.
Above the dry-dry dock is the Marine Terminal,
part of which is now used by the Liverpool Pilots. The Terminal and
Tug Pens were constructed by Shell in conjunction with an offshore
single point mooring installed for large tankers. This mooring was
used for discharging oil bound for the Stanlow Refinery in Cheshire
which as pumped by pipeline across north Wales. However the
facility closed around 1990. |
