Slate Museum

We visited an excellent place with a historical explaination of why there is a huge hole in the mountain in Llanderis. We went to the slate museum which was interesting as they had all the huge cutting tools still working from 1787. The things they made were excellent, so so refined and delicate in some ways as they sort of carved out patterns of flowers etc on the slate to decorate the home.

Here is some of the tools and the huge wheel that powered the whole thing, run by water