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 ...

Penrhyn quarry, Bethesda, is one of the oldest slate producers in the world One of the world's oldest slate quarries is set to continue until 2035 after council planners approved its expansion. The ...

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 ...

MANUFACTURER Welsh//Slate has launched an online store as it looks to open up new revenue streams. Embracing e-commerce represents a significant new direction for the company, which operates four ...

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 ...

Workers at a North Wales slate quarry will be balloted on strike action. Unite members working for Welsh Slate Breedon at Cwt Y Bugail and Penrhyn Quarry in Gwynedd voted to reject the company's pay ...

Nature has reclaimed part of an old Welsh village once home to a thriving slate quarry which closed in 1970. Old Talyfarn village now teems with moss, ivy and creepers where quarry workers would ...

A four-generation Peach Bottom Township slate roofing company has restored the roof of the original Welsh immigrant cottage in Coulsontown, near where the slate was quarried by these workers. Peach ...

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 ...