broadcast later in the year on S4C. The Caverns were claimed by Ivor Wynne Jones, a director of Llechwedd Slate Caverns, to be "winner of every major tourism...
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finished slate per year and had 513 employees. It continues to produce slate on a limited scale and is the location of the Llechwedd Slate Caverns tourist...
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Blaenau Ffestiniog (category Slate industry in Wales)
a slate mining centre in historic Merionethshire, it now relies much on tourists, drawn for instance to the Ffestiniog Railway and Llechwedd Slate Caverns...
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Gwynion, Wales. Llechwedd quarry, a slate quarry in Blaenau Ffestiniog, Wales. Llechwedd Slate Caverns, a visitor attraction in Llechwedd Quarry in Blaenau...
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website". National Slate Museum. Retrieved 11 December 2021. Richards 1995 p. 188 "Llechwedd Deep Mine website". Llechwedd Slate Caverns. Retrieved 11 December...
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Edwards who had been involved with the Ffestiniog Railway and the Llechwedd Slate Caverns in Wales. He said he hoped to keep Poldark Mine as an open-air...
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The slate industry is the industry related to the extraction and processing of slate. Slate is either quarried from a slate quarry or reached by tunneling...
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to be the first underground game show, filmed entirely in the Llechwedd Slate Caverns of Blaenau Ffestiniog, North Wales. The programmes are presented...
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British narrow-gauge railways Conwy Valley line Gloddfa Ganol Llechwedd Slate Caverns An Act to alter and amend an Act of his late Majesty’s Reign, intituled...
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over the slate business, which still operates on a reduced scale and has developed a major tourist attraction, the Llechwedd Slate Caverns. http://www...
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Railway / Rheilffordd y Graig (opened 1896) Blaenau Ffestiniog, Llechwedd Slate Caverns Ebbw Vale Ebbw Vale Garden Festival Funicular (1992–1992) Ebbw...
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Penrhyn Quarry is still producing slates, though at a reduced capacity compared to its heyday, and the Llechwedd Slate Caverns have been converted into a visitor...
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a former slate quarry near Llanberis in North Wales. Some interiors of the keep utilised the stonework within the Llechwedd Slate Caverns, near Blaenau...
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Garndolbenmaen: Narrow Gauge and Industrial Railway Modelling Review. Southend Pier Railway - official website Llechwedd Slate Caverns - official website...
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quantities of slate and their narrow valleys and steep hillsides meant that the smaller narrow-gauge railways were cost effective. The major slate mining regions...
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(located in Llechwedd Slate Caverns) (separate 3 ft (914 mm) gauge railway named Deep Mine Railway also present) (operating) National Slate Museum (operating)...
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Number Type Year Built Gauge Location 308 4wBE 1921 2ft (610mm) Llechwedd Slate Cavern 323 4wBE 1921 2ft (610mm) Alan Keef Ltd, Herefordshire 551 4wBE...
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Mines) Llechwedd Slate Caverns Wales Blaenau Ffestiniog, Gwynedd Slate 53°00′17″N 3°56′25″W / 53.0046°N 3.9403°W / 53.0046; -3.9403 (Llechwedd Slate Caverns)...
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List of quarries served by the Ffestiniog Railway (category Slate mines in Gwynedd)
from Diphwys Casson into Votty & Bowydd Llechwedd and Oakeley from the north. Llechwedd is on the left, the slate tips on the right are Oakeley The incline...
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by a fire). March/April – The "Miners' Tramway" underground at Llechwedd Slate Caverns, Blaenau Ffestiniog, opens to the public. 3 May – Leslie Harvey...
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Museum Internal Fire – Museum of Power Kidwelly Industrial Museum Llechwedd Slate Caverns Pierhead Building South Wales Miners' Museum Sygun Copper Mine...
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15th-century home of poet Ellis Wynne Llechwedd Slate Caverns Blaenau Ffestiniog Gwynedd North Wales Mining Slate mine quarry and tram Lloyd George Museum...
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Museum Internal Fire – Museum of Power Kidwelly Industrial Museum Llechwedd Slate Caverns Pierhead Building South Wales Miners' Museum Sygun Copper Mine...
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Museum Internal Fire – Museum of Power Kidwelly Industrial Museum Llechwedd Slate Caverns Pierhead Building South Wales Miners' Museum Sygun Copper Mine...
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Museum Internal Fire – Museum of Power Kidwelly Industrial Museum Llechwedd Slate Caverns Newtown Textile Museum Pierhead Building South Wales Miners' Museum...
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Museum Internal Fire – Museum of Power Kidwelly Industrial Museum Llechwedd Slate Caverns Pierhead Building South Wales Miners' Museum Sygun Copper Mine...
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Museum Internal Fire – Museum of Power Kidwelly Industrial Museum Llechwedd Slate Caverns Pierhead Building South Wales Miners' Museum Sygun Copper Mine...
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Museum Internal Fire – Museum of Power Kidwelly Industrial Museum Llechwedd Slate Caverns Pierhead Building South Wales Miners' Museum Sygun Copper Mine...
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Gloddfa Ganol (category Slate mines in Gwynedd)
collection was transferred to the Tanat Valley Light Railway. Llechwedd Slate Caverns Ffestiniog Railway Jones, R. Merfyn (1981). The North Wales Quarrymen...
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