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132 relations: Aberdyfi, Abergynolwyn, Aberllefenni Slate Quarry, Aled Eames, Anglesey, Anglicanism, Apprenticeship, Bangor, Gwynedd, Baron Penrhyn, Beaumaris, Bethesda, Gwynedd, Betws-y-Coed, Billiard table, Blaenau Ffestiniog, Braichgoch slate mine, Brass band, Bryn Eglwys, Caernarfon, Cambrian, Canals of the United Kingdom, Cardiff, Centre for Alternative Technology, Cilgwyn quarry, Coal mining, Corris, Corris Railway, Criccieth, Dandy waggon, De Winton, Dean (Christianity), Denbigh, Dictionary of Welsh Biography, Dinorwic Quarry, Dinorwig Power Station, Diphwys Casson Quarry, Disestablishmentarianism, Dorothea Quarry, Dublin, Edward Douglas-Pennant, 1st Baron Penrhyn, Eisteddfod, Electricity, Ffestiniog Railway, Foot (unit), Funicular, George Douglas-Pennant, 2nd Baron Penrhyn, German Empire, Glogue, Great Depression, Great fire of Hamburg, Guto'r Glyn, ..., Headstone, Hydroelectricity, Hydropower, John Whitehead Greaves, Kate Roberts (author), King Arthur, Labor relations, Laser, Liberal Party (UK), Line shaft, Llanberis, Llangollen, Llechwedd quarry, Llechwedd Slate Caverns, Lockout (industry), London and North Western Railway, Mabinogion, Machynlleth, Maentwrog, Mechanization, Menai Strait, Minutes, Nantlle Railway, Nantlle Valley, Narrow-gauge railway, National Gallery, National Library of Wales, National Slate Museum, Net profit, Nonconformist, Oakeley Quarry, Ordovician, Padarn Railway, Pembrokeshire, Penrhyn Quarry, Penrhyn Quarry Railway, Port Penrhyn, Porthmadog, Portugal, Pound sterling, Protectionism, Quarry, Recession, Rhuddlan, Richard Pennant, 1st Baron Penrhyn, River Dee, Wales, River Dovey, River Dwyryd, Roman Britain, Roof, Segontium, Shilling, Shipbuilding, Silicosis, Silurian, Slate, Slate industry, Slate waggon, Snowdon, Steam engine, Strike action, Strike pay, Taliesin, Talyllyn Railway, Tate, Thomas Assheton Smith I, Tile, Ton, Tory, Trade union, Traed mewn cyffion, Vaynol, Wales, Wales Millennium Centre, Water wheel, Welsh language, Welsh-language literature, Whitland and Cardigan Railway, World Heritage site, World War I, World War II, Y Felinheli. Expand index (82 more) »
Aberdyfi
Aberdyfi (Mouth of the River Dyfi), or Aberdovey (the Anglicised spelling) is a village and community on the north side of the estuary of the River Dyfi in Gwynedd, on the west coast of Wales.
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Abergynolwyn
Abergynolwyn (Mouth of the River with a Whirlpool) is a village in southern Gwynedd, Wales, located at the confluence of the Nant Gwernol and the Afon Dysynni.
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Aberllefenni Slate Quarry
Aberllefenni Slate Quarry is the collective name of three slate quarries, Foel Grochan (sometimes misspelt as Foel Crochan), Hen Chwarel and Ceunant Ddu, located in Aberllefenni, Gwynedd, North Wales.
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Aled Eames
Aled Eames (29 July 1921 – 7 March 1996) was an historian and author, primarily on Welsh maritime history.
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Anglesey
Anglesey (Ynys Môn) is an island situated on the north coast of Wales with an area of.
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Anglicanism
Anglicanism is a Western Christian tradition that evolved out of the practices, liturgy and identity of the Church of England following the Protestant Reformation.
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Apprenticeship
An apprenticeship is a system of training a new generation of practitioners of a trade or profession with on-the-job training and often some accompanying study (classroom work and reading).
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Bangor, Gwynedd
Bangor is a city in Gwynedd, northwest Wales.
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Baron Penrhyn
Baron Penrhyn is a title that has been created twice.
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Beaumaris
Beaumaris (Biwmares) is a former royal borough, a community, and the former county town of Anglesey, Wales.
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Bethesda, Gwynedd
Bethesda is a town on the River Ogwen and the A5 road on the edge of Snowdonia, in Gwynedd, north-west Wales, colloquially called Pesda by the locals.
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Betws-y-Coed
Betws-y-Coed ("Prayer house in the wood") is a village and community in the Conwy valley in Conwy County Borough, Wales.
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Billiard table
A billiard table or billiards table is a bounded table on which billiards-type games (cue sports) are played.
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Blaenau Ffestiniog
Blaenau Ffestiniog is a historic mining town in Wales.
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Braichgoch slate mine
Braichgoch slate mine was a large slate mine located in Corris Uchaf, north Wales.
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Brass band
A brass band is a musical ensemble generally consisting entirely of brass instruments, most often with a percussion section.
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Bryn Eglwys
Bryn Eglwys was a slate quarry and mine located near Abergynolwyn in Gwynedd, Wales.
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Caernarfon
Caernarfon is a royal town, community, and port in Gwynedd, Wales, with a population of 9,615.
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Cambrian
The Cambrian Period was the first geological period of the Paleozoic Era, and of the Phanerozoic Eon.
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Canals of the United Kingdom
The canals of the United Kingdom are a major part of the network of inland waterways in the United Kingdom.
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Cardiff
Cardiff (Caerdydd) is the capital of, and largest city in, Wales, and the eleventh-largest city in the United Kingdom.
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Centre for Alternative Technology
The Centre for Alternative Technology (CAT) (Canolfan y Dechnoleg Amgen) is an eco-centre in Powys, mid-Wales, dedicated to demonstrating and teaching sustainable development.
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Cilgwyn quarry
Cilgwyn quarry is a slate quarry located on the north edge of the Nantlle Vale, in North Wales.
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Coal mining
Coal mining is the process of extracting coal from the ground.
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Corris
Corris is a village and community in the south of Snowdonia in the Welsh county of Gwynedd.
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Corris Railway
The Corris Railway (Welsh: Rheilffordd Corris) is a narrow gauge preserved railway based in Corris on the border between Merionethshire (now Gwynedd) and Montgomeryshire (now Powys) in Mid-Wales.
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Criccieth
Criccieth (Cricieth) is a town and community on the Llyn peninsula in the Eifionydd area of Gwynedd in Wales.
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Dandy waggon
The dandy waggon is a type of railway carriage used to carry horses on gravity trains.
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De Winton
De Winton & Co (1854-1901) were engineers in Caernarfon, Wales.
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Dean (Christianity)
A dean, in a church context, is a cleric holding certain positions of authority within a religious hierarchy.
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Denbigh
Denbigh (Dinbych) is a market town and community in Denbighshire, Wales, of which it was formerly the county town.
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Dictionary of Welsh Biography
The Dictionary of Welsh Biography (DWB) (also The Dictionary of Welsh Biography Down to 1940 and The Dictionary of Welsh Biography, 1941 to 1970) is a biographical dictionary of Welsh people who have made a significant contribution to Welsh life over seventeen centuries.
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Dinorwic Quarry
The Dinorwic Slate Quarry is a large former slate quarry, now home to the Welsh National Slate Museum, located between the villages of Llanberis and Dinorwig in North Wales.
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Dinorwig Power Station
The Dinorwig Power Station is a pumped-storage hydroelectric scheme, near Dinorwig, Llanberis in Snowdonia national park in Gwynedd, north Wales.
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Diphwys Casson Quarry
Diphwys Casson Quarry (sometimes known as Diphwys Quarry or Diffwys Quarry) was a major slate quarry in the town of Blaenau Ffestiniog, north Wales.
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Disestablishmentarianism
Disestablishmentarianism refers to campaigns to sever links between church and state, particularly in relation to the Church of England as an established church within the United Kingdom.
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Dorothea Quarry
Dorothea Quarry is a large slate quarry in the Nantlle Valley in North Wales.
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Dublin
Dublin is the capital of and largest city in Ireland.
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Edward Douglas-Pennant, 1st Baron Penrhyn
Edward Gordon Douglas-Pennant, 1st Baron Penrhyn (20 June 1800 – 31 March 1886) was a Scottish landowner in Wales, and politician.
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Eisteddfod
In Welsh culture, an eisteddfod (plural eisteddfodau) is a Welsh festival of literature, music and performance.
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Electricity
Electricity is the set of physical phenomena associated with the presence and motion of electric charge.
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Ffestiniog Railway
The Ffestiniog Railway (Rheilffordd Ffestiniog) is a narrow-gauge heritage railway, located in Gwynedd, Wales.
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Foot (unit)
The foot (feet; abbreviation: ft; symbol: ′, the prime symbol) is a unit of length in the imperial and US customary systems of measurement.
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Funicular
A funicular is one of the modes of transport, along with a cable railway and an inclined elevator, which uses a cable traction for movement on a steep slope.
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George Douglas-Pennant, 2nd Baron Penrhyn
George Sholto Gordon Douglas-Pennant, 2nd Baron Penrhyn (30 September 1836 – 10 March 1907), was a landowner who played a prominent part in the Welsh slate industry as the owner of the Penrhyn Quarry in North Wales.
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German Empire
The German Empire (Deutsches Kaiserreich, officially Deutsches Reich),Herbert Tuttle wrote in September 1881 that the term "Reich" does not literally connote an empire as has been commonly assumed by English-speaking people.
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Glogue
Glogue is a hamlet and post town, north of Llanfyrnach, in the community of Crymych in the east of the county of Pembrokeshire, Wales.
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Great Depression
The Great Depression was a severe worldwide economic depression that took place mostly during the 1930s, beginning in the United States.
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Great fire of Hamburg
The Great fire of Hamburg began early on May 5, 1842 in Deichstraße and burned until the morning of May 8, destroying about one third of the buildings in the Altstadt.
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Guto'r Glyn
Guto'r Glyn (c. 1412 – c. 1493) was a Welsh language poet and soldier of the era of the Beirdd yr Uchelwyr ("Poets of the Nobility") or Cywyddwyr ("cywydd-men"), the itinerant professional poets of the later Middle Ages.
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Headstone
A headstone, tombstone, or gravestone is a stele or marker, usually stone, that is placed over a grave.
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Hydroelectricity
Hydroelectricity is electricity produced from hydropower.
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Hydropower
Hydropower or water power (from ύδωρ, "water") is power derived from the energy of falling water or fast running water, which may be harnessed for useful purposes.
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John Whitehead Greaves
John Whitehead Greaves (21 June 1807 – 12 February 1880) was an English businessman who was instrumental in developing the slate industry in Wales.
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Kate Roberts (author)
Kate Roberts (13 February 1891 – 4 April 1985) was one of the foremost Welsh-language authors of the 20th century.
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King Arthur
King Arthur is a legendary British leader who, according to medieval histories and romances, led the defence of Britain against Saxon invaders in the late 5th and early 6th centuries.
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Labor relations
Labor relations is a field of study that can have different meanings depending on the context in which it is used.
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Laser
A laser is a device that emits light through a process of optical amplification based on the stimulated emission of electromagnetic radiation.
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Liberal Party (UK)
The Liberal Party was one of the two major parties in the United Kingdom – with the opposing Conservative Party – in the nineteenth and early twentieth centuries.
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Line shaft
A line shaft is a power driven rotating shaft for power transmission that was used extensively from the Industrial Revolution until the early 20th century.
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Llanberis
Llanberis is a village, community and electoral ward in Gwynedd, northwest Wales, on the southern bank of the lake Llyn Padarn and at the foot of Snowdon, the highest mountain in Wales.
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Llangollen
Llangollen is a small town and community in Denbighshire, north-east Wales, situated on the River Dee and on the edge of the Berwyn mountains.
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Llechwedd quarry
Llechwedd quarry is a major slate quarry in the town of Blaenau Ffestiniog, north Wales.
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Llechwedd Slate Caverns
Llechwedd Slate Caverns is a visitor attraction near Blaenau Ffestiniog, Gwynedd, Wales.
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Lockout (industry)
A lockout is a temporary work stoppage or denial of employment initiated by the management of a company during a labor dispute.
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London and North Western Railway
The London and North Western Railway (LNWR, L&NWR) was a British railway company between 1846 and 1922.
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Mabinogion
The Mabinogion are the earliest prose stories of the literature of Britain.
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Machynlleth
Machynlleth, sometimes referred to colloquially as Mach, is a market town, community and electoral ward in Powys, Wales and within the historic boundaries of Montgomeryshire (Sir Drefaldwyn).
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Maentwrog
Maentwrog is a village and community in the Welsh county of Gwynedd, lying in the Vale of Ffestiniog just below Blaenau Ffestiniog, within the Snowdonia National Park.
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Mechanization
Mechanization or mechanisation (British English) is the process of changing from working largely or exclusively by hand or with animals to doing that work with machinery.
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Menai Strait
The Menai Strait (Afon Menai, the "River Menai") is a narrow stretch of shallow tidal water about long, which separates the island of Anglesey from the mainland of Wales.
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Minutes
Minutes, also known as minutes of meeting (abbreviation MoM), protocols or, informally, notes, are the instant written record of a meeting or hearing.
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Nantlle Railway
The Nantlle Railway (sometimes referred to as the Nantlle Tramway) was a Welsh narrow gauge railway.
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Nantlle Valley
The Nantlle Valley (Dyffryn Nantlle) is an area in Gwynedd, north Wales, characterised by its large number of small settlements.
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Narrow-gauge railway
A narrow-gauge railway (narrow-gauge railroad in the US) is a railway with a track gauge narrower than the standard.
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National Gallery
The National Gallery is an art museum in Trafalgar Square in the City of Westminster, in Central London.
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National Library of Wales
The National Library of Wales (Llyfrgell Genedlaethol Cymru), Aberystwyth, is the national legal deposit library of Wales and is one of the Welsh Government sponsored bodies.
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National Slate Museum
The National Slate Museum (previously known as the Welsh Slate Museum and the North Wales Quarrying Museum) is located at Gilfach Ddu in the 19th-century workshops of the now disused Dinorwic slate quarry, within the Padarn Country Park, Llanberis, Gwynedd.
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Net profit
Net profit, also referred to as the bottom line, net income, or net earnings is a measure of the profitability of a venture after accounting for all costs and taxes.
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Nonconformist
In English church history, a nonconformist was a Protestant who did not "conform" to the governance and usages of the established Church of England.
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Oakeley Quarry
Oakeley Quarry is a slate quarry in the town of Blaenau Ffestiniog, north Wales.
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Ordovician
The Ordovician is a geologic period and system, the second of six periods of the Paleozoic Era.
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Padarn Railway
The Padarn Railway was a narrow gauge railway line in North Wales, built to the unusual gauge of.
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Pembrokeshire
Pembrokeshire (or; Sir Benfro) is a county in the southwest of Wales.
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Penrhyn Quarry
The Penrhyn Slate Quarry is a slate quarry located near Bethesda in north Wales.
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Penrhyn Quarry Railway
The Penrhyn Quarry Railway first opened in 1798 as the Llandegai Tramway; it became the Penrhyn Railway in 1801 although on a different route.
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Port Penrhyn
Port Penrhyn (Porth Penrhyn) is a harbour located just east of Bangor in north Wales at the confluence of the River Cegin with the Menai Strait.
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Porthmadog
Porthmadog, known locally as "Port", is a small coastal town and community in the Eifionydd area of Gwynedd, in Wales.
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Portugal
Portugal, officially the Portuguese Republic (República Portuguesa),In recognized minority languages of Portugal: Portugal is the oldest state in the Iberian Peninsula and one of the oldest in Europe, its territory having been continuously settled, invaded and fought over since prehistoric times.
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Pound sterling
The pound sterling (symbol: £; ISO code: GBP), commonly known as the pound and less commonly referred to as Sterling, is the official currency of the United Kingdom, Jersey, Guernsey, the Isle of Man, South Georgia and the South Sandwich Islands, the British Antarctic Territory, and Tristan da Cunha.
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Protectionism
Protectionism is the economic policy of restricting imports from other countries through methods such as tariffs on imported goods, import quotas, and a variety of other government regulations.
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Quarry
A quarry is a place from which dimension stone, rock, construction aggregate, riprap, sand, gravel, or slate has been excavated from the ground.
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Recession
In economics, a recession is a business cycle contraction which results in a general slowdown in economic activity.
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Rhuddlan
Rhuddlan (approximately "RHITH-lan") is a town, community and electoral ward in the county of Denbighshire within the historic boundaries of Flintshire, on the north coast of Wales.
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Richard Pennant, 1st Baron Penrhyn
Richard Pennant, 1st Baron Penrhyn (1737 – 21 January 1808) was the owner of Penrhyn estate, on the outskirts of Bangor, North Wales, six sugar plantations in Jamaica and hundreds of enslaved African workers.
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River Dee, Wales
The River Dee (Afon Dyfrdwy, Deva Fluvius) is a river in the United Kingdom.
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River Dovey
The River Dyfi (Afon Dyfi in Welsh) is a river in Mid Wales.
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River Dwyryd
The River Dwyryd (Afon Dwyryd, meaning a river of two fords) is a river in Gwynedd, Wales which flows principally westwards; draining to the sea into Tremadog Bay, south of Porthmadog.
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Roman Britain
Roman Britain (Britannia or, later, Britanniae, "the Britains") was the area of the island of Great Britain that was governed by the Roman Empire, from 43 to 410 AD.
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Roof
A roof is part of a building envelope.
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Segontium
Segontium (Cair Seiont) is a Roman fort on the outskirts of Caernarfon in Gwynedd, North Wales.
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Shilling
The shilling is a unit of currency formerly used in Austria, the United Kingdom, Australia, New Zealand, United States, and other British Commonwealth countries.
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Shipbuilding
Shipbuilding is the construction of ships and other floating vessels.
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Silicosis
Silicosis (also known as miner's phthisis, grinder's asthma, potter's rot and other occupation-related names, or by the invented name pneumonoultramicroscopicsilicovolcanoconiosis) is a form of occupational lung disease caused by inhalation of crystalline silica dust, and is marked by inflammation and scarring in the form of nodular lesions in the upper lobes of the lungs.
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Silurian
The Silurian is a geologic period and system spanning 24.6 million years from the end of the Ordovician Period, at million years ago (Mya), to the beginning of the Devonian Period, Mya.
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Slate
Slate is a fine-grained, foliated, homogeneous metamorphic rock derived from an original shale-type sedimentary rock composed of clay or volcanic ash through low-grade regional metamorphism.
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Slate industry
The slate industry is the industry related to the extraction and processing of slate.
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Slate waggon
Slate waggons (sometimes spelled wagons) are specialized types of railway waggons designed for the conveyance of slate.
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Snowdon
Snowdon (Yr Wyddfa) is the highest mountain in Wales, at an elevation of above sea level, and the highest point in the British Isles outside the Scottish Highlands.
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Steam engine
A steam engine is a heat engine that performs mechanical work using steam as its working fluid.
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Strike action
Strike action, also called labor strike, labour strike, or simply strike, is a work stoppage caused by the mass refusal of employees to work.
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Strike pay
Strike pay is payments made by a trade union to workers who are on strike as help in meeting their basic needs while on strike, often out of a special reserve known as a strike fund.
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Taliesin
Taliesin (6th century AD) was an early Brythonic poet of Sub-Roman Britain whose work has possibly survived in a Middle Welsh manuscript, the Book of Taliesin.
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Talyllyn Railway
The Talyllyn Railway (Rheilffordd Talyllyn) is a narrow gauge preserved railway in Wales running for from Tywyn on the Mid-Wales coast to Nant Gwernol near the village of Abergynolwyn.
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Tate
Tate is an institution that houses the United Kingdom's national collection of British art, and international modern and contemporary art.
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Thomas Assheton Smith I
Thomas Assheton Smith (the elder) (1752 – 12 May 1828) was an English landowner and all-round sportsman who played a major part in the development of the Welsh slate industry.
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Tile
A tile is a manufactured piece of hard-wearing material such as ceramic, stone, metal, or even glass, generally used for covering roofs, floors, walls, showers, or other objects such as tabletops.
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Ton
The ton is a unit of measure.
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Tory
A Tory is a person who holds a political philosophy, known as Toryism, based on a British version of traditionalism and conservatism, which upholds the supremacy of social order as it has evolved throughout history.
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Trade union
A trade union or trades union, also called a labour union (Canada) or labor union (US), is an organization of workers who have come together to achieve many common goals; such as protecting the integrity of its trade, improving safety standards, and attaining better wages, benefits (such as vacation, health care, and retirement), and working conditions through the increased bargaining power wielded by the creation of a monopoly of the workers.
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Traed mewn cyffion
Traed mewn cyffion ("Feet in the stocks") is a novel by Kate Roberts, written in the Welsh language and first published in 1936.
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Vaynol
Vaynol or Y Faenol (Welsh) is a country estate dating from the Tudor period near Y Felinheli in Gwynedd, North Wales.
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Wales
Wales (Cymru) is a country that is part of the United Kingdom and the island of Great Britain.
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Wales Millennium Centre
Wales Millennium Centre (Canolfan Mileniwm Cymru) is an arts centre located in the Cardiff Bay area of Cardiff, Wales.
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Water wheel
A water wheel is a machine for converting the energy of flowing or falling water into useful forms of power, often in a watermill.
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Welsh language
Welsh (Cymraeg or y Gymraeg) is a member of the Brittonic branch of the Celtic languages.
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Welsh-language literature
Welsh-language literature (llenyddiaeth Gymraeg) has been produced continuously since the emergence of Welsh from Brythonic as a distinct language c. 5th century AD.
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Whitland and Cardigan Railway
The Whitland & Cardigan Railway was a long railway branch line in West Wales.
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World Heritage site
A World Heritage site is a landmark or area which is selected by the United Nations Educational, Scientific and Cultural Organization (UNESCO) as having cultural, historical, scientific or other form of significance, and is legally protected by international treaties.
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World War I
World War I (often abbreviated as WWI or WW1), also known as the First World War, the Great War, or the War to End All Wars, was a global war originating in Europe that lasted from 28 July 1914 to 11 November 1918.
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World War II
World War II (often abbreviated to WWII or WW2), also known as the Second World War, was a global war that lasted from 1939 to 1945, although conflicts reflecting the ideological clash between what would become the Allied and Axis blocs began earlier.
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Y Felinheli
Y Felinheli, formerly known in English as Port Dinorwic, is a village, community and electoral ward beside the Menai Strait (Y Fenai or Afon Menai) between Bangor and Caernarfon in Gwynedd, north-west Wales.
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Redirects here:
Welsh Slate, Welsh slate, Welsh slate industry.
References
[1] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Slate_industry_in_Wales
