Wales
This old slate factory in Wales has been unemployed for a century and a half. Slate was only produced for 15 years, a commercial failure in 1850.
Slate quarry Dinorwic
For centuries, stonemasons knocked and drilled slates in the quarries of Wales, such as in Dinorwic. This was once the second-largest slate quarry in the world.
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