Historic Photography
A ship's captain and his first mates with young ladies in attendance all holding posies on a 'ship' float at the Llantwit Major Carnival, c. 1934.
An early coal cutter. One of the earliest coal cutting machines used in Wales. This is a 'swinging pick' machine manufactured by Messrs. Ridley and Jones, similar to a machine used at Garth Colliery, Maesteg in 1863. The machine travelled along the coalface on rails and cut the coal in imitation of a human collier swinging his mandrel.