How wales used to live unique photographs of life in mid 19th century rural villages reveal slate mining traditional costumes and travel by donkey – Artofit

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How Wales used to live: Unique photographs of life in mid-19th century rural villages reveal slate mining, traditional costumes and travel by donkey

These previously unseen photos show the rural Welsh villages of Llanuwchllyn and nearby Bala, in Gwynedd, north Wales, way back in the 1860s.
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