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| Llechwefan Website | Coalfield Web Materials Website |
| To find out more about the development of quarrying in North Wales click here | To find out more about the development of coal mining in South Wales click here |
(Splitting and dressing slates with the hand knife, Dorothea Quarry Nantlle, c. 1925) |
(Winding house of Pyle pit after its closure) |
| To find out more about what life was like , for the North Wales quarrymen, click here | To find out more about what life was like for the coal miners in South Wales click here |
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(A photograph of the interior of a quarryman's home from the Caban publication: Mrs John P. Jones and her family.) |
(Duffryn Canteen Committee, 1926 Strike) |
| To learn about some of the major quarrymen’s strikes in North Wales, click here | To learn about some of the major events in the South Wales Coalfield, strikes click here |
(Bethesda Quarrymen's Choir with a banner during the 1900-1903 strke.) |
(Photo of Cardiff Demonstration) |
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Development of the Trade Unions |
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| To find out more about the development of Quarrymen’s trade unions in North Wales, click here | To find out more about the development of Miners’ trade unions in South Wales, click here |
(Leaders of the Penrhyn Strike (1900-1903) |
(Pamphlet advertising an A.J.Cook meeting) |
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Owners |
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| To discover who the owners of the slate quarries in North Wales were, click here | To discover who the owners of the coal mines in South Wales were, click here |
(Edward Gordon Douglas Pennant) |
(David Martin Evans-Bevan ) |
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Leisure Culture and Sport |
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| To find out more about how quarry men and their families spent their leisure time, click here | To find out more about how miners and their families spent their leisure time, click here |
(Black Stars, Blaenau Ffestiniog, 1925) |
(Nine Mile Point Colliery Band group photograph) |
