Download or read book Welsh Slate written by David Gwyn and published by RCAHMW. This book was released on 2015-05-06 with total page 292 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Slates from quarries in Wales once went to roof the world. By the late nineteenth century as many as a third of all the roofing slates produced worldwide came from Wales, competing with quarries in France and the United States. This book traces the industry from its origins in the Roman period, its slow medieval development and then its massive expansion in the nineteenth century – as well as through its long drawn-out decline in the twentieth.
Download or read book North Wales Slate written by Mark Reeves and published by . This book was released on 2018-08 with total page 304 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: The slate quarries near Llanberis have become one of the most popular climbing spots in North Wales for climbers looking for sport routes, or immaculate slab climbing. The development started with the slate boom of the 1980s when the area became famous for immaculate slabs of purple slate with bold run-out routes. Most of these routes are still there in their original style and many have become classics and much sought-after trad ticks. More recently the area has been developed with a multitude of super sport routes from short single pitches to huge multi-pitch extravaganzas. This guide is a celebration of all of those styles of slate climbing. It is a comprehensive guidebook covering all the routes which is a little unusual for a Rockfax, although we have produced such books before.
Download or read book A History of the North Wales Slate Industry written by Jean Olivia Lindsay and published by . This book was released on 1974 with total page 376 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Download or read book North Wales Climbs written by Jack Geldard and published by . This book was released on 2013-10-10 with total page 450 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: 'North Wales Climbs' covers the best climbing from this huge and varied area. It covers all the major mountain crags from Llanberis Pass, to Cloggy; and from Ogwen to the Carneddau.
Download or read book The Slates of Wales written by Frederick John North and published by . This book was released on 1946 with total page 158 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Download or read book Snowdonia Slate Trail written by Aled Owen and published by . This book was released on 2018-04-09 with total page 76 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: The Snowdonia Slate Trail is a new waymarked trail that runs for 83 miles through North Wales. It leads from the coast at Bangor into the heart of Snowdonia to make a circuit ending at Bethesda. The trail joins up villages with a choice of welcoming accommodation. The walking is varied, ranging from easy valleys to mountain passes, from wild moorland to river gorges.Highlights include the National Slate Museum of Wales, stunning views of Snowdon and nearby mountains, and abandoned slate villages high in the hills. The trail also passes the Penrhyn quarry with its impressive galleries of slate crossed by the longest, fastest zip-wire in Europe.This guidebook is in rucksack-friendly format and printed on rainproof paper. Lavishly illustrated with 95 colour photos, it contains large-scale mapping and all you need to plan and enjoy your holiday:14 pages with clear mapping of the route at 1: 40,000practical information about public transport and travelsection with inside knowledge on how best to climb Snowdondetailed route descriptions including where to find refreshments and accommodationbackground on the slate industry heritage, the 'Great Little Trains of Wales' and wildlife.
Download or read book Rhosydd Slate Quarry written by Michael Jonathan Taunton Lewis and published by . This book was released on 1974-01-01 with total page 100 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Download or read book Dinorwic written by Reg Chambers Jones and published by . This book was released on 2006 with total page 176 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: The Dinorwic Quarry at Llanberis, now the home of the National Slate Museum and the Electric Mountain Visitor Centre, was once one of the largest slate quarries in the world. Today, the scars of the terraces on the side of the Elidir Fach and Elidir Fawr, along with the tips of slate waste, are silent testimony to the industrialisation of this beautiful north Wales valley. Once employing thousands of men, the quarry was the major source of income for many communities, not only in the shadow of the mountain itself, but as far away as the east cost of the Isle of Anglesey from where many workmen travelled by boat and train every weekend to live in the spartan conditions of the quarry barracks. Slate quarrymen were a special breed of highly skilled workers who laboured in what would now be seen as appalling conditions in the face of the prevailing elements, forever running the risk of death, ill-health and serious injury.
Download or read book Slate in the United States written by Thomas Nelson Dale and published by . This book was released on 1914 with total page 278 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Download or read book Sugar and Slate written by Charlotte Williams and published by Parthian Books. This book was released on 2023-05-25 with total page 265 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: 'It is Williams's Welshness that makes the examination of her mixed-race identity distinctive, but it is the humour, candour and facility of her style that make it exceptional . . . an engaging and perceptive voice describing an engrossing and particular personal story.' – Gary Younge 'In its exploration of geographical, racial and cultural dislocation, Sugar and Slate is in the finest tradition of work to have emerged from the black diaspora in recent times.' – The Guardian 'Within this review, I can only scrape the surface of the many dimensions of Williams' memoir, so I strongly encourage you to read this precious book for yourself, and find those parts of it which speak most to you.' – Sarah Tanburn, Nation.Cymru 'Warmly recommended to any curious minds, at 20 years old Sugar And Slate still speaks to us in these modern times, helping to ensure marginal voices remain heard.' – Buzz A mixed-race young woman, the daughter of a white Welsh-speaking mother and black father from Guyana, grows up in a small town on the coast of north Wales. From there she travels to Africa, the Caribbean and finally back to Wales. Sugar and Slate is a story of movement and dislocation in which there is a constant pull of to-ing and fro-ing, going away and coming back with always a sense of being 'half home'. This is both a personal memoir and a story that speaks to the wider experience of mixed-race Britons. It is a story of Welshness and a story of Wales and above all a story for those of us who look over our shoulder across the sea to some other place. It would have been so much easier if I had been able to say, 'I come from Africa,' then maybe added under my breath, 'the long way round.' Instead, the Africa thing hung about me like a Welsh Not, a heavy encumbrance on my soul; a Not-identity; an awkward reminder of what I was or what I wasn't. Once at a seminar, one of those occasions when the word Diaspora crops up too many times and where there aren't too many of us present, the only other Diaspora-person sought me out. His eyes caught mine in recognition of something I can't say I could name, yet I must have responded because later as we chatted over fizzy water and conference packs, he offered quite uninvited and with all the authority of an African: 'People like you? You gotta get digging and if you dig deep enough you're gonna find Africa.'
Download or read book The Geology of England and Wales written by P. J. Brenchley and published by Geological Society of London. This book was released on 2006 with total page 588 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This second edition of 'The Geology of England and Wales' is considerably expanded from its predecessor, reflecting the increase in our knowledge of the region, and particularly of the offshore areas. Forty specialists have contributed to 18 chapters, which cover a time range from 700 million years ago to 200 million years into the future. A new format places all the chapters in approximately temporal order. Both offshore and economic geology now form an integral part of appropriate chapters.
Download or read book Slatehead written by Peter Goulding and published by Parthian. This book was released on 2024-10 with total page 0 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Join Peter as he ascends Orangutan Overhang, Supermassive Black Hole and Mental Lentils in the disused Dinorwig slate quarries of Snowdonia. Part creative nonfiction, part memoir and sports documentary, Slatehead is set in Thatcher's Britain and the present day. This was Thatcher's lost generation.
Download or read book The Slates of Arkansas written by Geological Survey of Arkansas and published by . This book was released on 1909 with total page 220 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Download or read book The North Wales Quarrymen 1874 1922 written by R. Merfyn Jones and published by . This book was released on 1982 with total page 372 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Download or read book Bastard Countryside written by Robin Friend and published by . This book was released on 2018-12-10 with total page 104 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: "Bastard Countryside collects together 15 years worth of exploration within the British landscape, dwelling on what Victor Hugo called the ‘bastard countryside’: “somewhat ugly but bizarre, made up of two different natures”. Friend’s large-format colour images scrutinise these inbetween, unkempt, and often surreal marginal areas of the country, highlighting frictions between the pastoral sublime and the discarded, often polluted reality of the present.Starting from a classical landscape tradition, Friend’s meticulous 5x4 photographs are given heightened effect through exaggerations of colour and composition, embodying a friction between British pastoral ideals and present reality. In particular, Friend follows moments in which the expected narrative of the landscape is rudely interrupted: often through leakage, pollution, or the wreckage and containment of nature.In his accompanying essay, writer Robert Macfarlane describes Bastard Countryside as “a vision par excellence of our synthetic ‘modern nature’– produced by assemblage and entanglement rather than purity and distinction”. Contained within Friend’s photographs are “hard questions [...] about what kinds of landscape one might wish either to pass through or to live in; about what versions of ‘modern nature’ might be worth fighting for, and why.” -- Publisher's website.
Download or read book North Wales Rock written by Simon John Panton and published by . This book was released on 2014 with total page 544 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Download or read book The Slate Industry written by Anthony Coulls and published by Amberley Publishing Limited. This book was released on 2019-07-15 with total page 122 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: For thousands of years slate has been quarried in Britain, but in Victorian times it became big business, and the legacy of the industry now shapes the landscape of North Wales, especially.
