A four-generation Peach Bottom Township slate roofing company has restored the roof of the original Welsh immigrant cottage in Coulsontown, near where the slate was quarried by these workers. Peach ...

What links Queen Victoria, a small duchess, a broad lady and a big forehead? The answer is that they could all have been found at Penrhyn Slate Quarry in 1832 when Henry Hawkins painted his picture of ...

Four years ago, 25 tonnes of slate, comprising 14,000 pieces of specially hand-cut and hand-worked roof slate, were shipped from Wales for St Francis Xavier’s Cathedral. For 10 years James Henry has ...

The National Slate Museum opened in 1972 and tells the story of the Welsh slate industry which supplied roofing tiles around the world The museum telling the story of how Wales supplied roof tiles to ...

An Eryri museum which tells the story of how Welsh slate once roofed the world will see its new shop topped with metal and a visitor shelter with corrugated sheets. Queries over why slate wasn't used ...

Chauncey grew up on a farm in rural northern California. At 18 he ran away and saw the world with a backpack and a credit card, discovering that the true value of any point or mile is the experience ...

Nick has seven years of experience in the home improvement industry. He started his career marketing for dozens of flooring providers and related home services across North America. Today, he is a ...

With the devastating fire that did major damage at the Horn Farm Center for Agricultural Education in Hellam Township on Monday, Oct. 25, 2021, it reminded me to write a column on the importance of ...

Catch the new series of Salvage Hunters: Georgian House Restoration featuring Welsh Slate roofing The programme includes Drew Pritchard at Penrhyn Quarry to see the process of splitting and dressing ...