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Articles: Industry - Workshop of the World

James Pyke Thompson, 1846-1897
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James Pyke Thompson (1846-1897)

1 December 2011
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Pithead Baths

30 June 2011
Children in Mines
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Children in Mines

11 April 2011
punch-bowl
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Drinking punch in the eighteenth century

28 January 2011
Bessemer converter
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The Ebbw Vale Steel, Iron & Coal Company

23 July 2010
A block of Crown Patent Fuel.
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Fuelling Antarctic exploration: The Crown Patent Fuel Company in Cardiff

23 July 2010
An air view of the works in August 1957
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The Ebbw Vale Steel, Iron & Coal Company

20 July 2010
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When tea-drinking was a fashionable, expensive habit

25 June 2010
Dinorwic Quarry, Llanberis: buildings and workforce, 1896.
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Dinorwig '69: End of the line for one of the largest slate quarries in the world

22 August 2009
Claude Monet (1840–1926), San Giorgio Maggiore by Twilight, oil on canvas, 1908.
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From Industry to Impressionism – what two sisters did for Wales

1 January 2009
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