Concerns that Dinorwic Quarry is being turned into an amusement park were thrown into the spotlight when campers pitched up yards away from a monument honouring the quarrymen who worked and died ...

The twin rows of now abandoned houses in Caernarfon, Wales, were, instead, somewhere for the quarrymen who worked at the nearby Dinorwic Quarry from the 1870s to rest their heads after long shifts.

Built in 1821, the original part of the building was used to house the shire horses of Dinorwic quarry. Extended and fully converted over the years it now remains the only unlisted property within ...

The Dinorwic quarry above Llanberis was the second largest mine in North Wales and when it closed definitively in 1969 it left behind a wasteland of vast proportions. The entire area was abandoned for ...

The Dinorwic quarry above Llanberis was the second largest mine in North Wales and when it closed definitively in 1969 it left behind a wasteland of vast proportions. The entire area was abandoned for ...