Bronze Age Gold from Wales

Queen's Dock, Swansea, photograph

unknown (Photographer)

Queen's Dock, Swansea oil terminal. View with caption printed beneath. Caption reads 'SOUTH WALES / 9. The Ports of South Wales have changed too. Tankers now pump vital oil ashore at Swansea, one of the many ports / which have had to learn new trades since the days when they lived by the export of coal. Britain can spare little coal / nowadays and most of the ports have turned over to general cargo. Swansea is one of the few to have specialised'.

Collection Area

Industry

Item Number

1998.71

Historical Associations

Association Type: Place name
Place: Queen's Dock, Swansea

Creation/Production

Role: Photographer
Period: 1939 (circa)

Acquisition

collected officially, 23/4/1998

Measurements

Length (mm): 305
Width (mm): 381

Techniques

Black and white (photomechanical)
Photomechanical

Material

Paper
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