Slate quarry strike: Art bid to heal divisions When the ... of one tenant evicted by Lord Penrhyn for displaying the infamous Welsh notice: "Nid Oes Bradwr Yn Y Ty Hwn" - There is No Traitor ...
For 10 years James Henry has been waiting to finish re-slating the roof of St Francis Xavier’s Cathedral, using slate sourced from the same Welsh mine as the original material. The project began ...
School pupils have sent slate to world leaders to try to help secure heritage status for north Wales quarries. Ysgol y Moelwyn in Gwynedd sent a piece of slate branded with the Ffestiniog Slate ...
Welsh slate was in demand not only in Britain but North America and mainland Europe as industrialisation and populations across the world gathered pace. Many new quarries opened or expanded to ...
A Canadian photographer and YouTuber has said he has fallen in love with the "otherworldly" beauty of a former slate town in north ... he said the wet Welsh weather was part of the area's charm ...