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The Slate Industry (Paperback)
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The Slate Industry (Paperback)
Series: Britain's Heritage
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List price R280
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Discovery Miles 2 360
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Slate 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. Slate 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. This book is part of the Britain's Heritage series,
which provides definitive introductions to the riches of Britain's
past, and is the perfect way to get acquainted with the slate
industry in all its variety.
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