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Alun John Richards is the author of "A Gazeteer of the Welsh Slate Industry". the comprehensive guide to locations of slate activity in Wales, now updated, much enlarged and expanded and re-published as " Gazeteer of Welsh Slate Quarrying"
Alun John has spent some forty years studying the history, archaeology and methods of the Welsh slate industry. As an engineer he was responsible for several technical innovations in slate working. A sometime lecturer at Coleg Harlech Summer Schools, he was for many years a guest field lecturer at the Snowdonia National Park Environmental Studies Centre, Plas Tan y Bwlch.
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» LANDSCAPE & LEGENDS
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A TALE OF TWO RIVERS Second Edition This book brings together evocative images by Jean Napier and tales, both ancient and modern, by Alun John Richards that take you on a journey the length of the Dyfi and the Mawddach from source to sea £12.00 |
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TWO SNOWDONIA RIVERS 144 Pages Jean Napier's unique images are complemented by Alun John's text as they follow the 'Silver Threads' of the Glaslyn & the Dwyryd £12.00 |
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» INDUSTRY
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FRAGMENTS OF MINE & MILL IN WALES 128 Pages A reminisce of some of the industries that once thrived in Wales. About 200 illustrations, many in colour, show some of the relics that have now vanished, and others, still with us, that are either odd, unexpected or just plain peculiar. £9.50 |
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TINPLATE IN WALES 152 Pages Chronicles an industry that from a small part of a small country whose products reached and benefited the entire world. £7.50 |
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» SLATE
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GAZETEER OF SLATE QUARRYING IN WALES 352 Pages A complete update and expansion with a great deal of new material, of the famous and long out of print £8.95 |
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SLATE QUARRYING IN CORRIS 148 Pages A new edition, revising, expanding and updating the original popular account of the 500 year history of slate working in the Dulas Valley £8.95 |
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SLATE QUARRYING IN WALES 232 Pages A brand new, totally revised edition. A narrative history of slate working in Wales from the earliest times, through its great nineteenth century heydays up to the end of the twentieth century. £8.95 |
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WELSH SLATE CRAFT 104 Pages A brief illustrated account of the history, the methods and the people that roofed the world with Welsh Slate. It includes mentions of Enamelled Slate that graced the homes of peasants and princes, of Writing Slates that made universal literacy possible and of the future of slate, particularly as an artistic medium. Welsh Craft Series £5.50 |
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CREFFTWYR LLECHI 104 Tud Adroddiad darluniadol byr o hanes, dulliau, a`r bobl a fu`n toi`r byd â Llechi Cymreig. Mae`n cynnwys cyfeiriadau at Lechi Enamel a addurnai gartrefi bonedd a gwreng, am Lechi Ysgrifennu a wnaeth lythrennedd byd-eang yn bosibl, ac am ddyfodol llechi, yn arbennig fel cyfrwng artistig. Cyfres Crefftau Cymru. £5.50 |
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CWM GWYRFAI 368 Pages In conjunction with Dr, Gwyfor Pierce Jones. An account of the SLATE QUARRIES adjacent to the route of the North Wales Narrow Gauge Railway and its successor, the recently revived Welsh Highland Railway. Using mainly previously unpublished text and photographs, it traces the fortunes of slate working in this most interesting area £9.95 |
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THE SLATE REGIONS OF NORTH & MID WALES 278 Pages Expands and develops on the author's 'Gazeteer', describing some 600 slate workings in northern and central Wales and touching on the approximately 40 railways and tramways which served them. £7.50 |
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THE SLATE RAILWAYS OF WALES 212 Pages Starting with Penrhyn Railroad of 1801, this book gives an account of the proliferation of railways which accompanied the 19th century expansion of slate working in Wales. £5.95 |
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THE SLATE QUARRIES OF PEMBROKESHIRE 196 Pages Carrying forward the work of the late Professor Gordon and Mrs Mary Tucker, this is a brief account of the almost 100 slate quarrying sites in south - west Wales and their railway connections. £5.50 |
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