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Daily Mirror
Daily Mirror
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Branwen Jones & Tim Hanlon

Inside UK village abandoned a century ago with overgrown ruins and steam engine

Images show an abandoned slate quarrying village in north Wales that has been unused for a century with overgrown ruins and a steam engine.

In the northwest of Wales there are some of the largest and most productive slate quarries in the world that stretch from the Nant Ffrancon valley in the east to Nantlle.

The region became known to have "roofed the 19th century world", with a significant effect on the lives of the region's people and communities as well as the landscape with its traces still found today.

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