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Featured article | Splitting of the slate blocks with hammer and chisel to produce roofing slates requires great skill. This process was not mechanized until the second half of the 20th century, and some slate is still produced in this way. These quarrymen are working at the Dinorwic Quarry, Wales, about 1910. | | Dinorwic Quarry | Roman period | slate | roof | Segontium | Caernarfon | Wales | Penrhyn Quarry | Bethesda | Dinorwic Quarry | Llanberis | Nantlle Valley | Blaenau Ffestiniog | mined | quarried | headstones | England | Ireland | France | narrow gauge railways | slate industry | First World War | Great Depression | Second World War | tiles | The most important slate deposits in Wales are the Cambrian deposits south of Bangor and Caernarfon and the Ordovician deposits around Blaenau Ffestiniog. | | Cambrian | Bangor | Caernarfon | Ordovician | Blaenau Ffestiniog | Cambrian | Ordovician | Silurian | Criccieth | Anglesey | Betws-y-Coed | Porthmadog | Aberdyfi | Corris | Pembrokeshire | Dee | Machynlleth | Aberllefenni Slate Quarry | Guto'r Glyn | Dean | Bangor | Rhuddlan | Denbigh | Menai Strait | Beaumaris | Dublin | The Cilgwyn Quarry, the oldest in Wales, was one of the most important producers of slate in the 18th century. The quarry was on Crown land, and the quarrymen did not have to pay a royalty to a landlord until 1745. | | Crown land | shillings | Richard Pennant | Baron Penrhyn | tons | Thomas Assheton Smith | Vaynol | steam engine | hydropower | canal network | United States | narrow gauge | Penrhyn Quarry Railway | Port Penrhyn | Padarn Railway | Y Felinheli | Nantlle Railway | Quarries which had their own rail link to a port had a great advantage. Here the finished slates are being loaded into slate waggons at the Penrhyn Quarry c. 1913. | | tiles | Ffestiniog Railway | slate waggons | 'dandy' waggons | Maentwrog | River Dwyryd | Betws-y-Coed | Llechwedd quarry | Hamburg | London and North Western Railway | Corris Railway | River Dyfi | Talyllyn Railway | Bryn Eglwys | Abergynolwyn | Cardigan | The drumhouse at the top of an incline housed the winding gear used to lower the loaded slate waggons down the slope. The weight of the loaded waggons would pull up empty waggons. This drumhouse is at Dinorwig Quarry. | | Mechanization | line shaft | billiard tables | net profit | GB£ | United Kingdom | Shipbuilding | De Winton | water-wheel | feet | At Dinorwig Quarry, workers from Anglesey were housed at the Anglesey barracks during the week. They would get up at 3 a.m. on Monday morning to walk to the ferry, and return home on Saturday afternoon. | | Anglesey | trade unions | The Penrhyn Slate Quarry, seen here c. 1900, was one of the two largest quarries in Wales. Together with the Dinorwig Quarry, it usually produced as many slates as every other quarry in Wales put together. | | recession | Labour relations | Anglican | Tory | Welsh-speaking | Nonconformist | Liberal | lock-out | George Sholto Gordon Douglas-Pennant | Edward Gordon Douglas-Pennant | strike | "There is no traitor in this house". These signs were put up in the windows of houses in the Bethesda area during the 1900–1903 dispute. | | 22 November | 1900 | strike pay | A truck once used for tipping waste stands abandoned in a slate mine near Llangollen following closure. Waste was often dumped into chambers which were no longer in use as it reduced the amount that had to be hauled to the surface. | | truck | Llangollen | Germany | electricity | hydro-electric | Snowdon | silicosis | coal miners | Blaenau Ffestiniog, seen here from Moelwyn Bach, is dominated by the large waste heaps surrounding the town. | | Moelwyn Bach | National Gallery | Tate Gallery | Portugal | Italy | Braichgoch Slate Mine | silicosis | laser | The National Slate Museum is housed in some of the buildings of the old Dinorwig Quarry near Llanberis. | | Llanberis | Dinorwig power station | National Slate Museum | Llechwedd Slate Caverns | funicular railway | Arthurian | Mabinogion | Taliesin | Machynlleth | Centre for Alternative Technology | Alfred McAlpine PLC | Conwy Valley Line | Llangollen | Wales Millennium Centre | Cardiff | The signal for blasting is blown at the Penrhyn Quarry c.1913. | | minutes | Church Disestablishment | tariff reform | Eisteddfodau | band | Welsh writers | apprenticeship | Kate Roberts | Traed mewn cyffion | 2006 | 09-06 | Welsh Slate Museum | 2006 | 09-13 | Welsh Slate Museum | 2006 | 09-06 | Llechwedd Slate Caverns | 2006 | 09-13 | 2006 | 09-13 | National Library of Wales | 2006 | 09-13 | ISBN 0-901337-42-0 | ISBN 0-86381-897-8 | ISBN 0-7083-0776-0 | ISBN 0-9512373-1-4 | ISBN 0-7153-6264-X | ISBN 0-86381-279-1 | ISBN 0-86381-319-4 | ISBN 0-86381-484-0 | ISBN 0-86381-552-9 | ISBN 0-7478-0124-X | Categories | Featured articles | Industrial history | Slate industry | Stone | Economy of Wales | History of Wales | Economic history of the United Kingdom | Mining in Wales |
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