Author : David Gwyn
Publisher : RCAHMW
Page : 292 pages
File Size : 38,95 MB
Release : 2015-05-06
Category : Social Science
ISBN : 187118455X
Slates from quarries in Wales once went to roof the world. By the late nineteenth century as many as a third of all the roofing slates produced worldwide came from Wales, competing with quarries in France and the United States. This book traces the industry from its origins in the Roman period, its slow medieval development and then its massive expansion in the nineteenth century – as well as through its long drawn-out decline in the twentieth.
Author : Jean Olivia Lindsay
Publisher :
Page : 376 pages
File Size : 39,29 MB
Release : 1974
Category : Industrial railways
ISBN :
Author : Anthony Coulls
Publisher : Amberley Publishing Limited
Page : 122 pages
File Size : 39,28 MB
Release : 2019-07-15
Category : Technology & Engineering
ISBN : 144569106X
For thousands of years slate has been quarried in Britain, but in Victorian times it became big business, and the legacy of the industry now shapes the landscape of North Wales, especially.
Author : Reg Chambers Jones
Publisher :
Page : 176 pages
File Size : 44,2 MB
Release : 2006
Category : Dinorwic Quarry (Wales)
ISBN : 9781844940332
The Dinorwic Quarry at Llanberis, now the home of the National Slate Museum and the Electric Mountain Visitor Centre, was once one of the largest slate quarries in the world. Today, the scars of the terraces on the side of the Elidir Fach and Elidir Fawr, along with the tips of slate waste, are silent testimony to the industrialisation of this beautiful north Wales valley. Once employing thousands of men, the quarry was the major source of income for many communities, not only in the shadow of the mountain itself, but as far away as the east cost of the Isle of Anglesey from where many workmen travelled by boat and train every weekend to live in the spartan conditions of the quarry barracks. Slate quarrymen were a special breed of highly skilled workers who laboured in what would now be seen as appalling conditions in the face of the prevailing elements, forever running the risk of death, ill-health and serious injury.
Author : Howard L. Malchow
Publisher : Stanford University Press
Page : 468 pages
File Size : 34,91 MB
Release : 1992
Category : Social Science
ISBN : 9780804718073
A Stanford University Press classic.
Author : Eleanor Casella
Publisher : Oxford University Press
Page : 769 pages
File Size : 18,93 MB
Release : 2022-04-12
Category : Social Science
ISBN : 019969396X
Through international and multi-period chapters, this volume explores the origins and development of industrialisation from its emergence in 18th century Europe to its contemporary ubiquity. It interrogates the widespread exploitation of natural resources that forged industrialisation and its environmental and social legacy in our globalised world.
Author : Kenneth Hudson
Publisher : CUP Archive
Page : 170 pages
File Size : 37,52 MB
Release : 1984-11-22
Category : Business & Economics
ISBN : 9780521253338
This is the first book to explore the exceptional opportunities offered by aerial photography for unravelling the physical complexities and historical development of the industrial landscape of Britain. A wide range of industrial sites is illustrated - from quarries, mines and car factories to airports, railways and New Towns. The general nature and significance of their history and development is discussed while the detailed commentaries accompanying each photograph indicate the kind of historical and technical information which cannot be easily obtained in any other way. There is good geographic coverage of sites, with examples from England, Wales and Scotland, drawn from the eighteenth to the twentieth centuries. Through a combination of fascinating narrative detail and imaginative presentation of photographic evidence, this book provides a unique insight into our industrial past and present.
Author : R. Merfyn Jones
Publisher :
Page : 372 pages
File Size : 23,67 MB
Release : 1982
Category : History
ISBN :
Author : Thomas Nelson Dale
Publisher :
Page : 278 pages
File Size : 19,68 MB
Release : 1914
Category : Geology, Economic
ISBN :
Author : John Chapple
Publisher : Manchester University Press
Page : 524 pages
File Size : 27,44 MB
Release : 1997-06-15
Category : Biography & Autobiography
ISBN : 9780719025501
This absorbing study of Elizabeth Gaskell's early life up to her marriage in 1832 is based almost entirely on new evidence. Also, using parish records, marriage settlements, property transfers, wills, record office documents, letters, journals and private papers, John Chapple has recreated the background of one of the nineteenth century's greatest novelists.
