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Penydarren ironworks, photograph
Contact print made from a glass negative (whereabouts unknown) showing the Penydarren Iron Works from the north east in summer 1876. The blast furnaces on the left had been disused for over a decade but the iron forges and rolling mills in the distance had been restarted in 1869 and the blowing engines on the right had been refurbished in the early 1870s in the hope of relighting the furnaces. However the blast furnaces were never relit and the works closed in 1875.
Collection Area
Industry
Item Number
2012.37
Creation/Production
Crawshay, Robert Thompson
Date: 1876
Acquisition
Collected officially, 27/6/2012
Measurements
Length
(mm): 227
Width
(mm): 292
Techniques
black and white (monochrome photograph)
photograph
Material
paper
Location
In store
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