Wales’s slate mining landscape could become the UK’s next World Heritage Site to rank alongside the likes of the Grand Canyon, the Great Wall of China and Machu Picchu as a wonder of the world. The ...

Dinorwig Slate Quarry Mountain Landscape, part of The Slate Landscape of Northwest Wales (United Kingdom of Great Britain and Northern Ireland) ...

Both Anna Hazlett and Tom Randall have repeated The Quarryman, the Johnny Dawes classic located in the Dinorwig slate quarries above Llanberis in North Wales. After their heyday in the late 1980's the ...

Rainbow Slab is arguably the jewel in the crown of Llanberis slate. The immense, smooth face is broken by a series of smaller ripples and of course by the rainbow itself, a pulsing vein which arches ...

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The Slate Landscape of Northwest Wales illustrates the transformation that industrial slate quarrying and mining brought about in the traditional rural environment of the mountains and valleys of the ...