The Slate Industry of North and Mid Wales

Aspects of the slate industry

These pages are devoted to specific locations which don't really fit in neatly elsewhere. This is an ongoing project in which I intend to cover various quarries, machinery, transport arrangements, artifacts, etc.


1. The slate quay at Tyddyn Isa near Maentwrog
2. Prince of Wales Quarry, Cwm Pennant
3. Anglesey Barracks, Dinorwic Quarry
4. Dyffryn Nantlle and Dorothea slate quarry
5. Cornish beam engine, Dorothea Quarry
6. Dwr Oer Quarry, near Blaenau Ffestiniog
7. The Welsh Slate Museum, Llanberis
8. Pont y Pandy slate mill, near Porthmadog
9. Maenofferen slate quarry in 1975
10. Ceir Gwyllt / Wild Cars


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