LLECHWOOD SLATE CAVERNS, BLAENAU FFESTINIOG, GWYNEDD, WALES RECONSTRUCTION, WITH MODELS, OF WORKERS IN A SLATE MINE

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A tableau, with modelled workmen, of slate extraction from a slate mine in the 19th century. One model is working with haulage machinery overseen by a bowler hatted foreman. The underground setting is by the Llechwedd Slate Caverns Museum

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Size: 3872px × 2592px
Location: Llechwedd Slate Caverns, Blaenau Ffestiniog, Gwynedd, Wales
Photo credit: © Jean Hall / Alamy / Afripics
License: Licensed
Model Released: No

Keywords: underground, 19th, caverns, century, education, europe, gwynedd, hall, heritage, history, jean, labourers foreman, llechwedd, machinery, miners, mines, period, reconstruction, restoration, rolling, slate, stock, tourism, wagons, wales, workers