A Canadian photographer and YouTuber has said he has fallen in love with the "otherworldly" beauty of a former slate town in north Wales ... he said the wet Welsh weather was part of the area's ...

Entire hillsides were transformed irreversibly as Welsh slate was exported worldwide ... The Dinorwic quarry above Llanberis was the second largest mine in North Wales and when it closed definitively ...

School pupils have sent slate to world leaders to try to help secure heritage status for north Wales quarries. Ysgol y Moelwyn in Gwynedd sent a piece of slate branded with the Ffestiniog Slate ...

The slate industry in North Wales started small and grew with the culture itself ... for both the participant and the parent/carer. This Welsh 3,000s challenge is one of the best and most testing runs ...