Bronze Age Gold from Wales

Great Mountain Colliery, photograph

Harry, Williams (Photographer)

Photograph captioned 'No. 1 Slant, Great Mountain Colliery, Tumble, Carmarthenshire. The headroom is not very much. The wooden roof supports have been important in the history of coal mining in South Wales. This colliery is in the anthracite area of the west, a coal much harder than that mined in the Valleys of Glamorganshire and Monmouthshire. An interesting feature of the photograph is the running of supply lines into the slant: one of these is a compressed air pipe, a source of power for many purposes in collieries.' Mounted on card. Made for the exhibition RECORDING WALES 3 in 1970/1971.

Collection Area

Industry

Item Number

87.32I/17

Historical Associations

Association Type: Colliery
Place: Great Mountain Colliery (Carms)

Creation/Production

Newport College of Art
Role: Photographer
Place: Newport College of Art
Period: 1970-1971

Acquisition

collected officially by NMW staff, 1987

Measurements

mount (mm): 526
mount (mm): 450

Techniques

Black and white (monochrome photograph)
Photograph

Material

Paper
Card

Categories

Coal Dyfed 1970s
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