Bronze Age Gold from Wales

Trehafod, photograph

unknown (Photographer)

Recovery of the body of a man drowned in a flood at Trehafod, Rhondda. The drowned man was an ex-serviceman who had been unemployed for ten years, and had five children. The flood was caused by the Afon Rhondda Fawr which destroyed a delapidated river wall.

Collection Area

Industry

Item Number

87.166I/293

Historical Associations

Association Type: Place name
Date: 1930s
Place: Trehafod

Creation/Production

Role: Photographer
Period: 11/1938

Acquisition

donation, 21/9/1987

Measurements

Length (mm): 80
Width (mm): 128

Techniques

Black and white (monochrome photograph)
Photograph

Material

Card

Classification

disaster
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