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The town, with its rows of old quarrymen's terraced cottages, grew around the development of slate quarrying during the 19th Century.

"Ordinary people - from the quarrymen of north Wales to the coal miners in south Wales to the agricultural labourers and farmers in mid Wales," said Elgan Philip Davies, a historian and former student in Aberystwyth.

Mr. Patterson explained how his father and three hundred other quarrymen went on strike days before the stock market crash in 1929, never to return to work in the pits again.

An old quarryman came to talk to us.

The nonprofit then changed the locks on the doors of the quarryman’s museum.