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7 unusual facts about Penrhyn Quarry


Chwalfa

However, the story is based on the real events in Bethesda, Gwynedd, at the time of the 'Great Strike' at Penrhyn Quarry between 1900 and 1903.

Leonard Appelbee

Macdonald contributed a painting of Penrhyn Quarry, entitled The Welsh Singer, whilst Appelbee produced the painting One-man Band.

Merfyn Jones

This book provides an analysis of the economic importance of slate extraction to North Wales and also of the rise of trades unionism in the area (and covers the industrial dispute at Penrhyn Quarry of 1900-03).

Penrhyn Quarry

The quarry holds a significant place in the history of the British Labour Movement as the site of two prolonged strikes by workers demanding better pay and safer conditions.

The quarry was first developed in the 1770s by Richard Pennant, later Baron Penrhyn although it is likely that small-scale slate extraction on the site began considerably earlier.

Penryn, California

Back home in North Wales, G. G., like his father before him, worked in the Penrhyn Slate Quarry.

Rock cannon

In Gwynedd the Penryn, Vaynol, and Tanybwlch quarrying estates had large numbers of cannon.



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