The Penrhyn Quarry Strike began yesterday, 22 November, 1900. It lasted a gruelling three years and became a symbol across Wales of working-class solidarity. Image copyright: painting by Henry Hawkins, National Trust Images / John Hammond. #history #otd #penrhyn #penrhynquarrystrike #politics #radical #onthisday #political #leftwing #socialist #historian #union #labour #wales #welsh #welshhistory #labourhistory #workingclasshistory #tradeunion #strike | The Radical Tea Towel Company

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🚂 LINDA DEPARTS PENRHYN STATION 🚂 Linda departs Penrhyn Station, runs alongside the road and passes the level crossing on her way to the mountains of Snowdonia. The steam locomotive is shown running parallel to the A4085 from Penrhyndeudraeth to Garreg – a stand-out section of the Ffestiniog Railway. She then goes past the railway's only remaining gated and staffed level crossing before heading towards Rhiw Goch. I took this video during the railway's annual Bygones Weekend. Linda was built by

🚂 PENRHYN LADIES DEPART BLAENAU FFESTINIOG 🚂 Linda and Blanche depart a wet and windy Blaenau Ffestiniog Station in the mountains of Snowdonia. The 19th century steam locomotives – known as the Penrhyn Ladies – were double-heading a special service to Porthmadog during Bygones Weekend on the Ffestiniog Railway. The railway was opened in 1836 to carry slate around 13.5 miles from the quarries around Blaenau Ffestiniog to Porthmadog, where it was loaded onto ships. Linda and Blanche were both bu

Secret steam loco: revealed! This is part of the ultimate barn find: more than 40 historic railway locomotives hidden away on a surrey farm, some since the 1960s. This is Kathleen and YOU are now one of the first people to see it - in a generation. This last vast great railway secret’s time to be unlocked is NOW... this is part of the legendary, mythical COLLECTION X of narrow gauge railway trains. Built in Wales in 1877, this little vertical engined loco was built for the Penrhyn Quarry in Nort