We went to the SLATE museum after our kyaking experience to see where the slate came from. Slate is actually compressed mud and sediment formed over millions of years in the earth. Welsh slate is some of the oldest on the planet, and many people buy it from all over the world. In the picture below you can see a big mouintin at the back called Vivian quarry, it is carved out where the slate mining took place. We actually saw a man cutting the slate, he made a heart. All those buildings are made out of Slate too.There were lots of train tracks all going to different rooms. My favirout part was when we went to the big water wheel that powered everything. There there was some pretty cool cottages that the miners used to live in, each cottage showed how the miners lived in different ages. We saw cottages from 1861, 1902 and 1961. The miners where treated very badly in the early years and was only paid 1 pound as salary and had to share a 2 roomed cottage with other minng families. They had hard times!
Ahira Varkey
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