Penrhyn Slate Quarry
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Exploration of workers' lives in the slate industry.
Living conditions in Bethesda at the turn of the 20th century when most of the townspeople worked in the huge Penrhyn slate quarry. Comparisons are made with modern day slate miners.
From:
Made in Wales Programme 3
First broadcast
:
28 September 2001
Teachers' notes
Age Group : 11-14
Subject : History
Topic : Industrial Wales and Britain
Keywords : Slate mining, slate industry
Notes : Use clip to look at conditions in the slate quarrying areas in the 1900s. Why was there such a difference between living conditions of the quarry men and their masters? Why was there then a strike in Bethesda? How did the working families live?
