THERE is no shortage of history books on sale for tourists to read about the heyday of the Welsh slate industry. THERE is no shortage of history books on sale for tourists to read about the heyday of ...

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 ...

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 ...

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 ...

It took Daniel Vermazen and his carpenter mate Steve Perkin a week of scrambling up tilted gables to replace 200 square metres of Welsh slate on the roof of a small brick church in Melbourne’s ...

It’s right that these post-industrial landscapes, with their complex history, should have world heritage status “The slate quarries are beautiful,” a friend told me, having returned from a holiday in ...

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 ...