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For four years the hills of Manod, near the slate mining town of Blaenau Ffestiniog, became the hidden underground home for nearly 2,000 of the world's greatest artistic masterpieces. The ...
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Looking at it from the outside, Manod Quarry in north Wales looks like any other abandoned quarry - dark, cold and a shadow of its former self. But it played a vital if little-known role in ...
Masterpieces by Rembrandt and Van Gogh were among those concealed inside a disused slate mine at Manod Mawr, Wales amid fears they could be destroyed by an invading Nazi army or from a bombing ...
The mountain in Graig Ddu quarry, above Blaenau Ffestiniog, Gwynedd, was originally part of Manod Mawr North Top. But Myrddyn Phillips said quarrying into the land had created another summit.