Bronze Age Gold from Wales
Celynen North Colliery, contact sheet
Cornwell, John (Mr) (John Cornwell was a freelance photographer who took many photographs of collieries, mostly in south Wales and the English Midlands, both underground and on the surface, during the 1970s and early 1980s. He perfected a method of underground photography using the standard colliery lighting and was able to photograph coal faces, roadways, shafts and equipment with amazing clarity. In addition to photographing working mines he also recorded abandoned mine workings, above and below ground.
John Cornwell was also well respected in the broader field of industrial archaeology. He published a number of books on Welsh and English collieries.
The copyright of his south Wales images are now owned by Amgueddfa Cymru - Museum Wales.)
Contact sheet of 12 images, three showing Blaengwrach Colliery and nine showing Celynen North Colliery.
The three of Blaengwrach Colliery show a general view of the mine and a methane boring drill and operator. The nine images of North Celynen Colliery show the pit bottom, pumping station and chain hauled shearer on the coal face, 1970s.
Collection Area
Industry
Item Number
2009.3/6093
Creation/Production
Cornwell, John (Mr)
Date: 1970s
Acquisition
Purchase, 20/1/2009
Measurements
Length
(mm): 217
Width
(mm): 253
Techniques
black and white (monochrome photograph)
photograph
Material
paper
Location
In store
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