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The National Slate Museum, Llanberis.

National Slate Museum: Window on the past

In 1999 Amgueddfa Cymru interviewed three former crafts-men from Gilfach Ddu slate quarry workshops. The workshops later became home to the National Slate Museum. The Museum holds a rich archive from the lives of the quarrymen, but the accounts from the craftsmen who crafted and worked the mined slate are also a fascinating window on the past.

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  • The Slate Industry
  • The Slate Industry

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  • The spectacular rise of the slate industry in north-west Wales began in the late 18th century, though it reached its greatest scale in the late 19th century
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