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Baricsio: the slate quarrymen’s barracks of North-West Wales
This paper presents a study of the barracks that housed the slate quarrymen of North-West Wales. Out of sight and out of mind, these industrial dwellings have been overlooked since their construction 150 years ago, despite the important story they tell of the men who sacrificed their family lives to extract the slate that roofed the industrial world.
Limited research into the barracks’ construction and inhabitation has been carried out, and few accounts bring together both quantitative and qualitative aspects surrounding the barrack-dwelling quarrymen. As time goes on, the dry slate walls of the barracks are returning to the landscape that produced them, and which gave them their purpose and physical presence. The social history of the wider sphere that the quarrymen existed within is documented to some extent in newspaper accounts, as well as in poetry and song. At one end was the family home, with the weekly commute, weekend family and rural subsistence livelihood, and at the other, the quarry, with bleak conditions and backbreaking work, yet having cultural and political opportunities unavailable in rural domestic life.
Baricsio: the slate quarrymen’s barracks of North-West Wales
This paper presents a study of the barracks that housed the slate quarrymen of North-West Wales. Out of sight and out of mind, these industrial dwellings have been overlooked since their construction 150 years ago, despite the important story they tell of the men who sacrificed their family lives to extract the slate that roofed the industrial world.
Limited research into the barracks’ construction and inhabitation has been carried out, and few accounts bring together both quantitative and qualitative aspects surrounding the barrack-dwelling quarrymen. As time goes on, the dry slate walls of the barracks are returning to the landscape that produced them, and which gave them their purpose and physical presence. The social history of the wider sphere that the quarrymen existed within is documented to some extent in newspaper accounts, as well as in poetry and song. At one end was the family home, with the weekly commute, weekend family and rural subsistence livelihood, and at the other, the quarry, with bleak conditions and backbreaking work, yet having cultural and political opportunities unavailable in rural domestic life.
Baricsio: the slate quarrymen’s barracks of North-West Wales
Bower, Rhiain (author)
The Journal of Architecture ; 23 ; 137-161
2018-01-02
25 pages
Article (Journal)
Electronic Resource
English
Baricsio: the slate quarrymen's barracks of North-West Wales
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