I'm trying to figure out what work these men are doing? The first photo is of my Uncle, John Jones; the second shows him having a tea break with 2 workmates, (that's him standing on the right) and the 3rd is another member of the work party. They look to me as if they are laying paving slabs, not slate. Could they be building some sort of sea defence - Rhos-on-Sea or Penrhyn Bay perhaps?
It's been suggested they were working for the Little Orme quarries. My Uncle, though born in Liverpool in 1908, lived in Mount Pleasant, Penrhynside, where many of the slate quarry workers boarded. When he married my Aunt in 1933, they lived at MP until their deaths.
Given his DOB of 1908, and working on the assumption that he would be 20s, early 30s in this photo, I would suggest the pics are from the mid-late 1930s.
Does anyone know anything about this work? Or who the other workers might be?
