Bronze Age Gold from Wales

Six Bells Colliery, photograph

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.)

View of the two headframes, Six Bells Colliery, 1979.

Collection Area

Industry

Item Number

2009.3/5658

Creation/Production

Cornwell, John (Mr)
Date: 1979

Acquisition

Purchase, 20/1/2009

Measurements

Length (mm): 202
Width (mm): 211

Techniques

black and white (monochrome photograph)
photograph

Material

paper

Location

In store

Classification

coal mine buildings headgear
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