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Articles: Industry - Workshop of the World

A brown horse stands on a track; he has a mask covering his face and is pulling a cart behind him and there's a green shed to one side
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Welsh colliery horses

6 October 2023
COAL magazine from the National Coal Board
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Glo - people's history online

2 September 2014
Swansea copper ore barque DELTA
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Wales – a modern maritime nation?

26 September 2013
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Francis Crawshay's Workers

26 July 2013
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‘Miners’ lives at 5½p each’: The Government Enquiry into the 1913 Senghenydd mine disaster

6 July 2012
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Coal Miners' Union Badges

2 July 2012
Albert Medal of the First Class, to William Beith.
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The Albert Medal and the Tynewydd Inundation

25 June 2012
Tynewydd rescuers with the rescued
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The Tynewydd Mining Disaster

19 June 2012
The Forest Works near Swansea 1792 by John 'Warwick' Smith (1749-1831).
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Coal seams and copper: W.E. Logan and the geological map

7 February 2012
Cynheidre Colliery, main trunk road with high speed conveyor, c.1978
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The Colliery photographs of John Cornwell

10 January 2012
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