Monthly Archives: December 2003

Ho-ho-holidays: The disused slate mine

Christ­mas 2003 goes down as a land­mark Christ­mas in my fam­ily. It was the first time Jols and I had the where­withal and resources to get away for a cou­ple of days before head­ing across to her par­ents’ house for the main fes­tiv­i­ties. A nice lit­tle hol­i­dayette. After exten­sive research, Jols landed upon a stay in the Lake Dis­trict, in