Chwalfa

1967 edition
(publ. Gwasg Aberystwyth)

Chwalfa is a Welsh language novel written by T. Rowland Hughes in 1946.

The novel chronicles the history of the Ifans family in the imaginary quarry town of Llechfaen. However, the story is based on the real events in Bethesda, Gwynedd, at the time of the 'Great Strike' at Penrhyn Quarry between 1900 and 1903.

Chwalfa is the name of a drama filmed by the BBC during the early 60s.Most of the extras in it where people who lived in the Carneddi area of Bethesda where there was a slate quarry up until the 1970s;this quarry was not owned by the Pennant family, who owned the nearby Penrhyn quarry, but by a company that employed many men who were out on strike during the great penrhyn strike of 1900.