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New Mosaic - Wales Slate

The only woman recorded using the “car gwyllt” (wild car) at the turn of the twentieth century is depicted in a new mural celebrating the history of the slate industry in Blaenau Ffestiniog.

The new mosaic – made entirely of slate by Original Roofing Company Cymru– has been installed on the gable end of the Beatons building in the town as part of Cyngor Gwynedd’s Llewyrch o’r Llechi programme and shows Kate Griffiths, schoolmistress of Rhiwbach in the early 1900s.

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