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Aerial photograph of Dinorwig Quarry, Llanberis, 1994
  • These 'practical health suggestions' were given to the Dinorwig quarrymen by R. H. Mills, the quarry doctor, in August 1894. Mills focused on four topics relating to the quarrymen's lives, namely, their homes, clothes, and the importance of good personal hygiene and diet. He stressed the importance of good ventilation in the home, especially the bedrooms, and advised that all windows should be kept open. Quarrymen were encouraged to change their underclothes as often as possible, and to keep two separate sets of woollen undergarments - one for work and the other for 'after work'. The quarrymen were urged to wash as often as possible, and to remove all their work clothes as soon as they had arrived home from the quarry. After washing thoroughly, warm, dry woollen undergarments should then be worn. The quarry doctor clearly felt that the quarrymen's diet left much to be desired. Instead of living on 'tea and bread-and-butter', they were urged to vary their diet with oats, oatcakes, broth, milk, cocoa and vegetables from the garden. They were also advised not to drink so much stewed tea.
Health advice given to the Dinorwig quarrymen by the quarry doctor, 1894
  • This is a pamphlet and song relating to the dispute which broke out at the Dinorwic Quarries, Llanberis, in October 1885. During the months leading up to the lock-out, the quarrymen had become increasingly resentful of the quarry managers and allegations of discrimination and favouratism were rife. Matters came to a head on 23 October when the quarrymen were told that all those who had attended a mass meeting ten days earlier would be dismissed from the quarry. As this pamphlet and song maintain, the 2,700 quarrymen who found themselves out of work experienced great hardship during the five-month lock-out which eventually resulted in a bitter defeat for the quarrymen.
Pamphlet and songsheet re. the Dinorwig Quarry lock-out of 1885-6 [image 1 of 4]
Aerial photograph of Dinorwic Slate Quarry, 1999
  • A list of the accidents which occurred at the Dinorwig and Penrhyn slate quarries in the period 1822-79. This booklet was compiled from accident reports which appeared in the 'Herald Cymraeg' newspaper.
Cynauaf Damwain: a List of the Accidents which occurred at the Dinorwig and Penrhyn slate quarries (Caernarfon, [1879]), [front cover, image 1 of 20]
  • Black and white photographs (25 in total) of the Dinorwig Quarry Workshops, Gilfach Ddu, Llanberis, 1969.
Photographs of the Dinorwig Quarry workshops, Llanberis, 1969