The Slate Industry by Anthony Coulls (Paperback, 2019)

Name: The Slate Industry by Anthony Coulls (Paperback, 2019)
Brand: Amberley Publishing

Amberley Publishing

The Slate IndustryAuthor(s): Anthony Coulls\nFormat: Paperback\nPublisher: Amberley Publishing, United Kingdom\nImprint: Amberley Publishing\nISBN-13: 9781445691053, 978-1445691053\nSynopsis\nSlate from British quarries roofed the world. For a period in the nineteenth century, ships exported thousands of tons of roofing slate from the UK to an international market. The development of slate as a roofing material drove the business of extraction, but many other slate products have been made as well, including writing slates, electrical installations and even snooker tables.\n\nSlate is synonymous with North Wales, where a bid for World Heritage Site status is being made for the landscape formed by quarrying, but there was also a slate industry in Leicestershire, Cornwall and Cumbria. The enormous physical remains of the quarries themselves have sometimes developed as tourist attractions and at other times have been left as landscape features ripe for exploration and discovery.\n\nThis .