[94637] Llanberis : National Slate Museum - Chief Engineer's House

National Slate Museum, Llanberis, Gwynedd.

Chief Engineer's House.

The house is presented to the public in the way it was fitted and furnished c1911.

 

The National Slate Museum is located at Gilfach Ddu in the 19th-century workshops of the now disused Dinorwic quarry, within the Padarn Country Park.

 

The workshops which served the needs of the quarry and its locomotives, were built in 1870 on land created from the continuous tipping of spoil from the adjacent Vivian Quarry, and as a replacement for the store sheds which were previously sited there. Rail access to the works was by both 1 ft 11 1⁄2 in narrow gauge (the quarry gauge) and 4 ft narrow gauge (that of the Padarn Railway which carried the slate from the quarry to Port Dinorwic). Rails also entered the main yard through the main entrance.

 

The quarry closed in 1969 and the site was opened on 25 May 1972 as the North Wales Quarrying Museum.

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