A four-generation Peach Bottom Township slate roofing company has restored the roof of the original Welsh immigrant cottage in Coulsontown, near where the slate was quarried by these workers. Peach ...
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 ...
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 ...