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 ...

ONE of Wales’ most traditional industries is seeing record sales in overseas markets. ONE of Wales’ most traditional industries is seeing record sales in overseas markets. Welsh Slate – the company ...

A MANUFACTURING company producing world-famous slate has seen exports reach record levels, fuelled by growing overseas demand. Welsh Slate, which employs more than 200 people across four quarry sites ...

Add articles to your saved list and come back to them any time. Welsh slate is the premium choice for homeowners renovating gabled heritage houses around Point Piper and Bellevue Hill. Yet the slate, ...

It took Daniel Vermazen and his carpenter mate Steve Perkin a week of scrambling up tilted gables to replace 200 square metres of Welsh slate on the roof of a small brick church in Melbourne’s ...

SLATE. It’s probably one of the most iconic of all Welsh natural products – and there must be countless millions of tonnes of the stuff buried deep in Snowdonia. SLATE. It’s probably one of the most ...

THERE is no shortage of history books on sale for tourists to read about the heyday of the Welsh slate industry. THERE is no shortage of history books on sale for tourists to read about the heyday of ...

The Lagan family has bought a Welsh building materials business for almost €42 million. Kevin Lagan has bought Welsh Slate from British group, Alfred McAlpine, in a deal valued yesterday at £31 ...

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 ...