Welsh slate was in demand not only in Britain but North America and mainland Europe as industrialisation and populations across the world gathered pace. Many new quarries opened or expanded to ...

School pupils have sent slate to world leaders to try to help secure heritage status for north Wales quarries. Ysgol y Moelwyn in Gwynedd sent a piece of slate branded with the Ffestiniog Slate ...

A Canadian photographer and YouTuber has said he has fallen in love with the "otherworldly" beauty of a former slate town in north ... he said the wet Welsh weather was part of the area's charm ...