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From a distance, the quiet mountains that surround the Oakeley Arms stand calm, proud and magnificent, but dig a little deeper and you’ll find a noisy industrial and destructive history; one that was defined by Wales’ grey gold – the valuable Welsh slate that was dug from the quarries around Blaenau Ffestiniog in thousands of tonnes and exported all over the world. And that story starts with the affluent Oakeley family of Tan-y-Bwlch, the grand mansion a few yards west of the Oakeley Arms Hotel. The hotel was for a long time part of the large Oakeley estate and so its fortunes were closely linked to those of the family, and have had almost as many twists and turns.