What would they tell us? I'm thinking of the men who built these barracks for the slate workers. I'm thinking of them when they had only part built the cottages up to this height..... the point to which they have now crumbled.

Perhaps they were working on a day like this 150 years ago, cloudy but with sun beginning to break through. And maybe for a moment one paused the back breaking work, and stood upright to straighten his back. They had found a nice piece of slate (actually there was no shortage) as a lintel for the doorway, built the roof ridge and had now created a small window that looked up the valley, across the lakes to the mountains and on to the pass of Llanberis. He stood there for a moment feeling the ache in his back subside, the beauty of the landscape soothing his body and mind. What a stunning place God created!!

And then a shout broke the relative calm of men placing stone upon stone in the background.

"Merfyn get back to work you lazy b-stard!!"


For more images of Dinorwic Slate Quarry see www.flickr.com/gp/pentlandpirate/3WU3JS

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