Bronze Age Gold from Wales

Bwllfa Colliery, photograph

unknown (Photographer)

Bwllfa Pithead, Aberdare. This Aberdare Valley Colliery still employed women on the surface at this date. In the background is the wooden headgear and behind it the winder house probably housing a single cylinder steam engine as indicated by the large flywheel on the front wall.

Collection Area

Industry

Item Number

87.108I/11

Historical Associations

Association Type: Colliery
Place: Bwllfa Colliery

Creation/Production

Role: Photographer
Period: 1870 (circa)

Acquisition

donation, 2/7/1987

Measurements

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Material

Paper
Card

Categories

Coal Mid Glamorgan 1870s
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