ONE of Wales’ most traditional industries is seeing record sales in overseas markets. ONE of Wales’ most traditional industries is seeing record sales in overseas markets. Welsh Slate – the company ...

Four years ago, 25 tonnes of slate, comprising 14,000 pieces of specially hand-cut and hand-worked roof slate, were shipped from Wales for St Francis Xavier’s Cathedral. For 10 years James Henry has ...

The National Slate Museum opened in 1972 and tells the story of the Welsh slate industry which supplied roofing tiles around the world The museum telling the story of how Wales supplied roof tiles to ...

What links Queen Victoria, a small duchess, a broad lady and a big forehead? The answer is that they could all have been found at Penrhyn Slate Quarry in 1832 when Henry Hawkins painted his picture of ...

Young workers are needed to support growing demand for slate from Wales, a quarry firm has said. Welsh Slate is expanding its operations at Penrhyn quarry near Bethesda, Gwynedd, and reopening two ...

Rehoboth Welsh Chapel serves as a kind of long-standing poster for the Delta region in southeastern York County. The 1891 building has a slate roof and slate siding, door and windowsills, sidewalks ...

An Eryri museum which tells the story of how Welsh slate once roofed the world will see its new shop topped with metal and a visitor shelter with corrugated sheets. Queries over why slate wasn't used ...

Welsh Slate is expanding its operations at Penrhyn quarry near Bethesda, Gwynedd, and reopening two quarries in Blaenau Ffestiniog. It will mean 29 new jobs in a part of Wales where slate has been a ...