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As an evacuee during the second world war I remember seeing the worked out slate quarries, tumbledown workers cottages and rusting cranes on the moors. Can anyone tell me when slate quarrying ended. judging by the state of the workers cottages I would have thought it was before 1900.

The vast majority of the quarries began to come to slow down etc after the first world war, men returning home from the battlefields refused to work for the low wages offered by quarrymasters. This set the begining of the end