Painting. Lord Penrhyn's slate quarry near Bangor / John Nixon. - 1807. - Watercolour; 14x20.7cm, in gilt frame 36.8x42.1x2cm. - Signed with initals and dated 1807, dated 1808 on reverse and inscribed ...

Built on the proceeds of sugar harvested by enslaved people on four plantations in Jamaica, and quarrying in what was once ...

Located a mere five miles from the scenic city of Bangor, the quaint Welsh town of Bethesda provides an idyllic gateway to the rugged beauty of Snowdonia National Park, beckoning nature ...

Here the breaking point is at Penrhyn slate quarry near Bethesda in north Wales where from 1900 until 1903 the longest strike in British history took place. An entire community, locked out by the ...

By the 1870s, slate was one of Wales' major industries and Blaenau Ffestiniog had become an industrial town. The Dinorwig and Penrhyn quarries were the two largest slate quarries in the world ...