Slate Collection

Buddon Wood, Mountsorrel, Swithland, Leicestershire
Sketch of the granite (or syenite) district viewed from Swithland Old Slate Quarry, including Buddon Wood, Mountsorrel, Kinchley Hill and Brazil Wood, Leicestershire

Man at work, Dinorwig Slate Quarry, North Wales
A man at work, 150 feet up on the main face of Dinorwig (or Dinorwic) Slate Quarry, near Llanberis, North Wales

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

A View of Armadale Castle, by William Daniell
A View of Armadale Castle, Island of Sky[e], from the Sound of Slate, by William Daniell RA (1769-1837). (1 of 2) Date: 1817

General view of Dinorwig Slate Quarry, North Wales
A general view of Dinorwig (or Dinorwic) Slate Quarry, near Llanberis, North Wales, soon to be changed for ever with the construction of a new dam

Trulli houses in Alberobello, Italy. Very distinctive white cylindrical buildings with grey slate roofs. circa 1960s

Lesson Time by Muriel Dawson
A sweet child in an embroidered smock dress studiously writes upon a slate

Penrhyn Slate Quarries
View of the Penrhyn slate quarries at Bethesda, Gwynnedd. Date: early 20th century

Boy with Slate Kept In
A little boy has to stay in to work out a sum on his slate

Swithland, Leicestershire, with granite and slate quarries
Sketch of the Swithland area of Leicestershire, with granite at the top of Kinchley Hill, a small quarry to the right, Buddon Wood (granite) to the right, and Charnwood Forest (slate) to the left

Kinchley Hill and Brazil Wood, Swithland, Leicestershire
Sketch of granite rocks at Kinchley Hill and Brazil Wood, Swithland, Leicestershire, by Reverend Baden Powell (1796-1860), father of Robert Baden Powell. 1859

Mel Roy on the stage mid-nite, spook party talking skulls, spirit slate writing, spirit table raising, ghosts from the dead. Date ca. 1935

Apprentice splitting slate, Delabole Quarry, Cornwall
An apprentice splitting a slate at the Delabole Quarry in North Cornwall. Slate has been mined in the area since the middle ages

Rocks, Carbon
Various types of carbon including crystallised diamond, graphite, slate coal and peat

The Old Post Office - Tintagel, Cornwall
The Old Post Office, viewed from the north-east. The Old Post Office is thought to date from the 14th or 15th century. Originally a manor house or stewards house

An automatic slate picker Scranton Pennsylvania USA early 1900s

Chwarel Slate Quarry, Wales

A Welsh slate quarry (probably Chwarel), early 1900s

Hand tinted photo of slate train at Llanberis, Wales - Victorian period

Railway trucks carrying slate wagons in Wales

Hand tinted photo of a velocipede (used for transporting)
Hand tinted photo of a velocipede (used for transporting men to the slate quarries) at Llanberis, Wales - Victorian period

A slate quarry velocipede, Llanberis, Wales

Penrhyn Slate Quarry near Bethesda Victorian period

Clogau St. David's Gold Mine near Bontddu early 1900s

Gwynfynydd Gold Mine near Dolgellau early 1900s

Gwynfynydd Gold Mine near Dolgellau - panning room - early 1900s

Frongoch lead and zinc mine near Pontrhydygroes early 1900s

Welsh Gold Prospectors early 1900s

Saint-Beat Marble Quarry Haute-Garonne France Victorian period - showroom

Delabole Slate Quarry

Delabole Slate Quarry Victorian period

Farm workers in Cornwall Victorian period

Miner working a high seam Victorian period

Coal mine lattice steel headgear early 1900s

Coal mine pit pony Victorian period

Bethesda Penryhn Slate Quarry, North Wales

Bethesda penryhn slate quarry, Wales

Penrhyn slate quarry, Victorian period

Ffestiniog Railway Tan-y-Bwlch Station early 1900s

Porthmadog Harbour Victorian period

Backworth Colliery early 1900s

Carn Brea Tin and Copper Mines early 1900s

Six Bells Colliery Abertillery Wales early 1900s

Penryhn Slate Quarry, North Wales

Penrhyn Slate Quarry Wales Victorian period

Slate cavern in North Wales probably Llechwedd

Llechwedd Slate Cavern Wales Victorian period

Snowdon Mountain Railway Locomotive No. 7 Victorian period

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