Holyhead Jan 15 1857 Preparing for the Great Blast (painting) - Collections Online | Museum Wales
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Holyhead Jan 15 1857 Preparing for the Great Blast (painting)

View of Holyhead mountain before the Great Blast, 1857. Unsigned and undated. Modern frame. Scene depicts preparations on 15 January 1857 to blow away a substantial section of Holyhead Mountain to provide sufficient stone for the construction of the breakwater that now forms the harbour of refuge off the Anglesey port.

Scene depicts preparations on 15 January 1857 to blow away a substantial section of Holyhead Mountain to provide sufficient stone for the construction of the breakwater that now forms the harbour of refuge off the Anglesey port.

Holyhead Jan 15 1857 Preparing for the Great Blast (painting)
Image: By permission of Amgueddfa Cymru — Museum Wales
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Collection Area

Industry

Item Number

1996.239

Measurements

frame (mm): 308
frame (mm): 480
frame (mm): 350
frame (mm): 525

Categories

Gwynedd (county name) 1850s

Classification

processes blasting
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