Occurrence of Attributes in Original Text
The text related to the cultural heritage 'The Slate Landscape of Northwest Wales' has mentioned 'Quarry' in the following places:
| Occurrence Sentence | Text Source |
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| The Cilgwyn quarry in the Nantlle Valley dates from the 12th century, and is thought to be the oldest in Wales. | WIKI |
| [7] Aberllefenni Slate Quarry may have started operating as a slate mine as early as the 14th century. | WIKI |
| The earliest confirmed date of operating dates from the early 16th century when the local house Plas Aberllefenni was roofed in slates from this quarry. | WIKI |
| The Cilgwyn Quarry, the oldest in Wales, was one of the most important producers of slate in the 18th century. | WIKI |
| The quarry was on Crown land, and the quarrymen did not have to pay a royalty to a landlord until 1745. | WIKI |
| Methusalem Jones, previously a quarryman at Cilgwyn, began to work the Diffwys quarry at Blaenau Ffestiniog in the 1760s, which became the first large quarry in the area. | WIKI |
| [16] The large landowners were initially content to issue "take notes", allowing individuals to quarry slates on their lands for a yearly rent of a few shillings and a royalty on the slates produced. | WIKI |
| The same year, Lord Penrhyn opened a new quarry at Caebraichycafn near Bethesda, which as Penrhyn Quarry would become the largest slate quarry in the world. | WIKI |
| [18] By 1792, this quarry was employing 500 men and producing 15,000xc2xa0tons of slate per year. | WIKI |
| [19] At Dinorwig, a single large partnership took over in 1787, and in 1809 the landowner, Thomas Assheton Smith of Vaynol, took the management of the quarry into his own hands. | WIKI |
| The Cilgwyn quarries were taken over by a company in 1800, and the scattered workings at all three locations were amalgamated into a single quarry. | WIKI |
| [20] The first steam engine to be used in the slate industry was a pump installed at the Hafodlas quarry in the Nantlle Valley in 1807, but most quarries relied on hydropower to drive machinery. | WIKI |
| [26] The Padarn Railway was opened in 1824 as a tramway for the Dinorwig Quarry, and converted to a railway in 1843. | WIKI |
| [30] There was further expansion at Blaenau when John Whitehead Greaves, who had been running the Votty quarry since 1833, took a lease on the land between this quarry and the main Ffestiniog to Betws-y-Coed road. | WIKI |
| After years of digging he struck the famous Old Vein in 1846 in what became the Llechwedd quarry. | WIKI |
| In 1843, the Padarn Railway became the first quarry railway to use steam locomotives, and the transport of slate by train rather than by ship was made easier when the London and North Western Railway built branches to connect Port Penrhyn and Port Dinorwic to the main line in 1852. | WIKI |
| [33] The Ffestiniog Railway converted to steam in 1863, and the Talyllyn Railway was opened in 1866 to serve the Bryn Eglwys quarry above the village of Abergynolwyn. | WIKI |
| [34] The Cardigan Railway was opened in 1873, partly to carry slate traffic, and enabled the Glogue quarry in Pembrokeshire to grow to employ 80 men. | WIKI |
| This drumhouse is at Dinorwig Quarry | WIKI |
| The Mining Journal estimated in 1859 that the Penrhyn quarries produced an annual net profit of GBxc2xa3100,000, and the Dinorwig Quarry xc2xa370,000 a year. | WIKI |
| Blaenau Ffestiniog produced almost as much, and the Dinorwig Quarry alone produced 80,000xc2xa0tons per year. | WIKI |
| In 1870, De Winton built and equipped an entire workshop for the Dinorwig Quarry, with machinery powered by overhead shafting that in its turn was driven by the largest water-wheel in the United Kingdom, over 50xc2xa0feet in diameter. | WIKI |
| Other groups were the "bad rockmen" who usually worked in crews of three, removing unworkable rock from the face, and the "rubbish men" who cleared the waste rock from the galleries and built the tips of waste which surrounded the quarry. | WIKI |
| At Dinorwig Quarry, workers from Anglesey were housed at the Anglesey barracks during the week. | WIKI |
| The Penrhyn Slate Quarry, seen here c. 1900, was one of the two largest quarries in Wales. | WIKI |
| Together with the Dinorwig Quarry, it usually produced as many slates as every other quarry in Wales put together. | WIKI |
| The causes of the dispute were complex, but included the extension of a system of contracting out parts of the quarry. | WIKI |
| Lord Penrhyn reopened the quarry in June 1901, and about 500 men returned to work, to be castigated as "traitors" by the remainder. | WIKI |
| Cilgwyn, the oldest quarry in Wales, closed in 1914, though it later reopened. | WIKI |
| The Llechwedd quarry introduced its first electrical plant in 1891, and in 1906, a hydro-electric plant was opened in Cwm Dyli, on the lower slopes of Snowdon, which supplied electricity to the largest quarries in the area. | WIKI |
| Foty Quarry, Blaenau Ffestiniog, 1950 | WIKI |
| Part of the Manod quarry at Blaenau Ffestiniog was used to store art treasures from the National Gallery and the Tate Gallery. | WIKI |
| [74] The Diffwys quarry at Blaenau Ffestiniog closed in 1955 after almost two centuries of operation. | WIKI |
| The following year the Dorothea quarry in the Nantlle Valley and the Braichgoch quarry near Corris announced their closure. | WIKI |
| For many years, the quarry owners had denied that slate dust was the cause of the high levels of silicosis suffered by quarrymen. | WIKI |
| It was previously owned by the Lagan Group, which also owned and carried out some operations at the Oakeley quarry at Blaenau Ffestiniog, the Pen yr Orsedd quarry in the Nantlle Vale, and the Cwt-y-Bugail quarry. | WIKI |
| [79] In March 2010 the company announced its decision to mothball the Oakeley quarry because of subsidence at the site. | WIKI |
| The Greaves Welsh Slate Company produces roofing slates and other slate products from Llechwedd, and work also continues at the Berwyn Quarry near Llangollen. | WIKI |
| The National Slate Museum is housed in some of the buildings of the old Dinorwig Quarry near Llanberis. | WIKI |
| Part of the Dinorwig Slate Quarry is now within the Padarn Country Park, and the other part houses the Dinorwig power station in caverns under the old quarry workings. | WIKI |
| The National Slate Museum is located in some of the quarry workshops. | WIKI |
| [86] The Llwyngwern quarry near Machynlleth is now the site of the Centre for Alternative Technology. | WIKI |
| [89] The areas included in the nomination include Penrhyn quarry and the Ogwen Valley,[90] Dinorwig quarry,[91] Nantlle Valley,[92] Gorseddau and Prince of Wales quarries,[93] Ffestiniog and Porthmadog, including the Ffestiniog Railway,[94] and Abergynolwyn and Bryn Eglwys quarry, including the Talyllyn Railway. | WIKI |