Blaenau Collection

Splitting Slates
A workman uses a hammer and chisel to split slates in the biggest slate quarry in the world at Blaenau Ffestiniog, Merionethshire, Wales

Victoria Colliery, Ebbw Vale, Gwent, South Wales
View of the Victoria Colliery, Ebbw Vale, Blaenau Gwent, South Wales

Llechwedd Slate Cavern Wales Victorian period

A workman splitting slates in one of the biggest slate quarries in the world, at Blaenau Ffestiniog, Wales. Date: 1950s

Railway Station - (Ffestiniog Narrow Gauge Railway), Tan-Y-Bwlch, Blaenau Ffestiniog, Snowdonia, Gwynedd, Wales. Date: 1911

Street Scene, Blaenau Ffestiniog, Merionethshire
Street Scene, Blaenau Ffestiniog, near Porthmadog, Merionethshire, Wales. Date: 1920s

Back to back housing, Llanhilleth, Gwent, South Wales
A view along an alley between back to back terraced housing in Llanhilleth, Blaenau Gwent, South Wales, showing walls made of a mixture of brick and stone, and ramshackle corrugated iron roofing

Railway tunnel, Oakeley Slate Quarry, North Wales
Entrance to a railway tunnel, built in 1879, which goes right under the main workings of Oakeley Slate Quarry, Blaenau Ffestiniog, North Wales

Snowy Quarry
A winter scene of the snow- covered slate quarry at Blaenau Ffestiniog, Merionethshire, Wales. Date: 1960s

Rhiwbryfdir Slate Quarry, Blaenau Ffestiniog, North Wales
View of Rhiwbryfdir Slate Quarry, near Blaenau Ffestiniog, Caernarvonshire (now Gwynedd), North Wales, showing the slate store, a crane

Slate roof, Blaenau Ffestiniog Slate Quarry, North Wales
Intricate patterning made from slate on the roof of an abandoned weighbridge building at Blaenau Ffestiniog Slate Quarry, Caernarvonshire (now Gwynedd), North Wales

Slate tiling, Blaenau Ffestiniog Slate Quarry, North Wales
Intricate patterning made from slate on an abandoned weighbridge building at Blaenau Ffestiniog Slate Quarry, Caernarvonshire (now Gwynedd), North Wales

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