Bronze Age Gold from Wales
Mine-workers protest, photograph
The event occured on Wednesday morning 14 December 1910, and was reported on page 6 of the Western Mail the following day. This march of 10,000 Rhondda mine-workers was in protest against summonses served on some Gilfach Goch men for alleged intimidation under the conspiracy Act. The report mentions that a banner with the motto "Hungry as Lions" was held aloft on Amos Hill, Pen-Y-Graig, by two bearers.
Collection Area
Industry
Item Number
87.166I/216
Creation/Production
T. Forrest & Sons
Date:
Acquisition
Donation, 21/9/1987
Measurements
Length
(mm): 202
Width
(mm): 253
Techniques
black and white (monochrome photograph)
photograph
Material
paper
card
Location
In store
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