Slate Workshop - Llanelli

Parking for cars and minibuses is available at the workshop. The showroom is accessible for disabled visitors.

The green slate is the local Pembrokeshire slate which, until recently, was quarried across the bridge from the workshop at Gilfach quarry. Unfortunately, it is now difficult to find Pembrokeshire slate of good enough quality for lettering, so is used for barometers and other craft items.
Some of the blue/black slate comes from Corris, about 80 miles north, but this is becoming increasingly difficult to get.
A slightly lighter grey slate comes from Blaenau Ffestiniog, and often has attractive natural 'water' markings in the surface and sometimes iron pyrites, or 'fools gold' within the slate.
The purple slate comes from Penrhyn, right in the very north of Wales, where it is mainly used for roofing slate. This slate sometimes has odd dots of greenish blue.