Welsh Slate

Welsh Slate
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Publisher : RCAHMW
Total Pages : 292
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ISBN-10 : 9781871184556
ISBN-13 : 187118455X
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Book Synopsis Welsh Slate by : David Gwyn

Download or read book Welsh Slate written by David Gwyn and published by RCAHMW. This book was released on 2015-05-06 with total page 292 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Slates from quarries in Wales once went to roof the world. By the late nineteenth century as many as a third of all the roofing slates produced worldwide came from Wales, competing with quarries in France and the United States. This book traces the industry from its origins in the Roman period, its slow medieval development and then its massive expansion in the nineteenth century – as well as through its long drawn-out decline in the twentieth.


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