Splitting Hut

A splitting hut is a building near a slate quarry in which the broken slate is processed further.

The workers, known as splitters , saw, cut, scrape and split the slates on long benches. The panels are transported from the slate quarry to the splitting huts on panel trolleys.

Web links

• Slate . In: Merck's Warenlexikon . 3rd ed. 1884 ff., P. 492 f.
• Adolf Runge: The Year of a Typesetter's Wanderlust , page 131