These cookies are absolutely essential for our website to function properly.
We use Google Analytics to measure how you use the website so we can improve it based on user needs.
These cookies may be set by third party websites and do things like measure how you view YouTube videos.
Amgueddfa Cymru – Museum Wales
Content summary :- Penrhyn Quarry, Bethesda film examines slate quarrying at site from blasting to loading on to trucks, then to the sheds where slate blocks were cut ready for sawing on sawing table and thence on to slate splitting. Film also examines Pen-yr-Orsedd Quarry (unmodernised) and shows the four man team "bargain" at the face, transportation to sawing sheds and the splitting and mechanised dressing of slate. Film also shows present day (ie. c1970s) site in decline and ruins.
16mm, sound commentary and colour
length 18 minutes
