Quarry Barracks Snowdonia
by Adrian Evans
Title
Quarry Barracks Snowdonia
Artist
Adrian Evans
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Photograph - Photography - Digital Art
Description
Foot path to Anglesey Barracks, comprising of two rows of 11 dwellings, served as accommodation for quarrymen, they would spend the week based in the barracks working in the quarry, leaving their homes very early on Monday morning and returning Saturday afternoon.
Conditions were spartan. Each two-room unit had a living area with a fireplace and a sleeping area for four men. Facilities were scant no running water, toilets or electricity.
Public-health inspectors closed down these barracks in 1948.
Llanberis, Snowdonia, north Wales
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January 16th, 2018
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