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Cymmer Colliery, photograph
Collings, Joseph (Photographer Joseph Collings was based at 47 Bute Street, Cardiff. He is last seen in newspaper adverts and trade directories in 1875 and thereafter the business was continued by his widow and son, operating under his wife's name Margaret Robinson 'M.R.Collings'.)
Insole colliery at Cymmer, Porth. One the earliest known photographs of a South Wales Colliery, it shows the Cymmer pithead with the Rhondda River in the foreground. From the pale dresses and the pillbox type hats of the three girls and the gentleman's stove pipe hat, they would seem to be visitors to the colliery.
Collection Area
Industry
Item Number
87.108I/19
Historical Associations
Association Type: colliery
Date: 1860 (circa)
Associated Person/Body: Insoles Limited
Association Type: coal company
Association Type: place name
Date: 1860 (circa)
Creation/Production
Collings, Joseph
Acquisition
Donation, 2/7/1987
Measurements
Length
(mm): 515
Width
(mm): 645
Techniques
black and white (monochrome photograph)
photograph
Material
paper
Location
In store
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