Graig Ddu quarry (also known as Craig Ddu quarry, Manod quarry, or, since the closure of the nearby Cwt y Bugail quarry, Cwt y Bugail quarry) is a disused...

quarry (also known as Manod quarry, New Manod quarry, or, since the closure of the nearby Cwt y Bugail quarry, Cwt y Bugail quarry) is a slate quarry...

known as the Ffestiniog hills. Manod Mawr is a mountain which has been extensively quarried. The now-closed Graig Ddu Quarry is to be found on the 600-metre...

distant storage: The National Gallery collection spent the war at the Manod Quarry near Ffestiniog, North Wales. The Bank of England moved to the small...

Tan-y-Manod railway station was a railway station approximately 1 mile (1.6 km) south of Blaenau Ffestiniog, in Gwynedd (formerly Merionethshire), North...

Historic Monuments of Wales. Sallery, Dave. "Manod / Welsh Slate's 'Cwt y Bugail Quarry': A brief history of the quarry". "MOELWYN SLATE MINE". The Royal Commission...

cellars, but not a picture shall leave these islands". Instead a slate quarry at Manod, near Blaenau Ffestiniog in North Wales, was requisitioned for the...

outbreak of World War II in 1939 led to a severe drop in trade. Part of the Manod quarry at Blaenau Ffestiniog was used to store art treasures from the National...

mines in the Ffestiniog area include: Llechwedd quarry – now open to the public as a "tourist mine". Manod – used by the National Gallery, London to store...

Tramway. From 1956 onwards the quarry was sub-leased to Manod Slate Quarries Ltd. which operated the Graig Ddu quarry to the south. In 1961 the Cwt y...

Manod Mawr North Top is a mountain in North Wales and forms part of the Moelwynion. It lies directly to the north of its parent Manod Mawr, separated...

and Blaen y Cwm. To the south-east another cluster worked the slopes of Manod Mawr. The workforce for these was drawn initially from nearby towns and...

biggest single source was Craig Ddu Quarry which built a striking four-pitch incline to meet the F&BR near its Tan-y-Manod station, half a mile north of Tyddyngwyn...

The novel takes its setting from a true-life event, when the Manod (Cwt-y-Bugail) quarry at Blaenau Ffestiniog was used to store art treasures from the...

of the Craig Ddu and Manod quarries, bought the quarry in December 1947, together with the Croesor Quarry and the Conglog quarry, with a view to reopening...

station by packhorse and sled from Drum quarry. One source states that some slate was brought here from Tan-y-Manod in narrow gauge days. In common with...

the closure of the F&BR's Blaenau terminus. No source suggests that Tan-y-Manod became the temporary terminus, indeed, the F&BR went to trouble and expense...

bombardment of London. After the artworks were safely transferred to Manod Quarry near Ffestiniog, North Wales, Davies was able to make his research in...

The Blaen y Cwm quarry was a slate quarry located east of Blaenau Ffestiniog in Wales. It was first worked in some time between 1813 and 1818 and sporadically...

a long, although downhill, walk. At Graig Ddu Quarry near Blaenau Ffestiniog, quarrymen living in Manod found a way to speed their homeward journey. Rather...

1944). Halcrow's expertise was also used in preparatory works at the Manod slate quarry in north Wales, used to keep treasures from the National Gallery,...

"Blaenau Ffestiniog Central, Duffws (FR) & Tan-y-Manod". Britain from Above. "Manod, Tan-y-Manod, Blaenau Ffestiniog Central & Duffws (FR)". Britain...

Street (F&BR) Former wooden viaduct Tan-y-Manod (F&BR) Graig Ddu Quarry Pengwern Quarry Tyddyngwyn (F&BR) Manod Teigl Halt Festiniog Maentwrog Road Line...

(provided by the GWR) on standard gauge transporter wagons between Tan-y-Manod and Blaenau Ffestiniog where the wagons were off-loaded in the large station...

F&BR station at Manod was Tyddyngwyn, its replacement was Manod, slightly south of the Tyddyngwyn site The F&BR station at Tan-y-Manod was closed and not...

Tyddyngwyn railway station was immediately north of the later Manod station in what was then Merionethshire, now Gwynedd, Wales. Tyddyngwyn was an intermediate...

Alexandra quarry was a slate quarry in North Wales, on the slopes of Moel Tryfan in north Gwynedd. It was part of one of the major slate quarrying regions...

further branch ran south from Blaen y Cwm, via a switchback, to Manod and Bwlch y Slaters quarries. The tramway was originally designed to be worked by horses...

in the construction of narrow gauge railways and the ownership of slate quarries in North Wales during the second half of the 19th century. Hugh Beaver...

the Corris Railway and the horse-worked branch that served the Llwyngwern quarry, which is now the home of the Centre for Alternative Technology. The branch...