It has sat untouched for decades as Mother Nature reclaims the area ...

Dinorwig slate quarries gained UNESCO World Heritage Site status in 2018 The slate quarries of north-west Wales gained UNESCO World Heritage Site status in 2018. Once, slate carved from here was sent ...

Rehoboth Welsh Chapel serves as a kind of long-standing poster for the Delta region in southeastern York County. The 1891 building has a slate roof and slate siding, door and windowsills, sidewalks ...

Abandoned huts, sheds and slate equipment at Dinorwig Quarry provide a haunting reminder of an industry that once roofed the world. Yet long-time visitors are becoming angered by the way the quarry is ...

The film The Quarrymen by Neil Hart, about the slate quarries above Llanberis in North Wales starring James Pearson, Johnny Dawes and one of Britain’s most famous multi-pitch rock climb, The Quarryman ...

Tucked away beneath a slate-covered hillside lies "a working world frozen in time", a sight seldom seen by many. At the height of its boom in the late 19th century, the Welsh slate industry provided ...

In 2024, the BMC Cymru (the British Mountaineering Council's Welsh department) has been actively collaborating with local groups to explore the historical place names of the popular climbing area of ...

AMONGST the manufacturing industries which, during the last hundred years, have expanded into large proportions is the production of roofing slate. Nor is it difficult to account for this expansion.

Abandoned huts, sheds and slate equipment at Dinorwig Quarry provide a haunting reminder of an industry that once roofed the world. Yet long-time visitors are becoming angered by the way the quarry is ...