Victorian Slate Mining

Slate was to North Wales what coal was to the South. Its extraction and transport created entire communities, with a network of roads and railways to connect mines and quarries to new harbours, from whence the world's finest roofing material could be shipped across the globe. We know the Romans used some slate at Caernarfon and there was medieval use of slate roofs in Conwy. However, it was the Industrial Revolution, and the need for something better than thatch to roof the countless terraces of new houses sprouting around the factories, that prompted the proper exploitation of Welsh slate.This study is based upon the 1893-94 investigation by a Government Departmental Committee appointed to investigate the conditions in the slate mines of North Wales, and it incorporates photographs specially commissioned by the Home Office from pioneering underground photographer J.C.Burrow.

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Author: Ivor Wynne Jones
Publisher: Landmark Publishing
Extra Details: Hardback + Jacket 7 x 10 inches tall,142 Pages Lavishly illustrated with B&W photos and maps throughout.