Bronze Age Gold from Wales

Bute Colliery, photograph

Bute Colliery, Treherbert, about 1890. Workmen pose against the wooden headframe of the Bute Colliery, Treherbert, sunk by the Marquis of Bute's agent, W.S. Clarke, in the Upper Rhondda in 1884. This photograph, taken a few years later, shows surface craftsmen and underground officials with the winding engine on the plinth in front of his engine.

Collection Area

Industry

Item Number

87.108I/135

Creation/Production

unknown
Date: 1890 (circa)

Acquisition

Donation, 2/7/1987

Measurements

Length (mm): 605
Width (mm): 535

Material

paper

Location

In store

Categories

coal Mid Glamorgan 1890s

Classification

coal mine buildings headgear
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