BUIlding blocks

All around Dinorwig, the lesser quality slate extracted from the mountainside was repurposed as building materials. It constructed the quarry’s buildings, blast huts, inclines and stair cases.

Here a richly lichen stained slate wall recedes off into the distance as the sun rises behind a spoil heap and distant drum house also constructed from the waste slate.

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