Lantern slide. Showing the Island of Philae. This photograph was taken by Sgt. Johnson of the 436 Welsh Field Company c. 1917. It formed part of a lecture which he gave. The notes from his lecture read 'Another view of the granite rocks and here the great Assoun Dam can be seen in the distance. The ancient granite quarries lie in the eastern desert between Assouan and Shallel. In the quarry there lies a huge unfinished Obelisk....' This view is similar to EC1787.
Lantern slide. Showing the Sultan Hassan Mosque in Cairo. This photograph was taken by Sgt. Johnson of the 436 Welsh Field Company c. 1917. It formed part of a lecture which he gave. His notes read 'Sultan hassan Mosque Cairo. The walls show the marks of the canon ball fired from the Citadale by Napoleon'. The mosque is one of the largest in the world. Work was begun on the mosque in 1356 and it remains one of the finest examples. This view is similar to EC1747.
Lantern slide. Showing the Sultan Hassan Mosque mauseleum in Cairo. This photograph was taken by Sgt. Johnson of the 436 Welsh Field Company c. 1917. It formed part of a lecture which he gave. His notes read 'Sultan hassan Mosque Cairo. The walls show the marks of the canon ball fired from the Citadale by Napoleon'. The mosque is one of the largest in the world. Work was begun on the mosque in 1356 and it remains one of the finest examples. This view is similar to EC1795.
Lantern slide. Showing the Great Barrage of the Aswan dam. This photograph was taken by Sgt. Johnson of the 436 Welsh Field Company c. 1917. It formed part of a lecture which he gave. The notes from his lecture read 'Not far below the Island of Sehel stands the great barrage which was built for the purpose of storing water in Lower Nubia during the Winter in order to use it when the nile is low in the summer...'. This view is similar to EC1788 and EC1791.
Molly (Mary) is sitting on a side wall while Frank stands holding a gate on the path leading from the kitchen garden of his stables [1] toward the terraced orchard and woodland of Cwmdu below. Mary would later become the owner of Glynteg following her marriage. The iron gate survives to this day in the Author’s garden.
Lantern slide. Showing the Aswan. This photograph was taken by Sgt. Johnson of the 436 Welsh Field Company c. 1917. It formed part of a lecture which he gave. The notes from his lecture read 'Here we have a view of Assouan. In ancient remains Assuan is not very rich though such antiquities as are to be found here are of very consierable interest, only a fraction of the ancient buildings are still to be seen even in the ruins...There are new gardens in Assoun which are actually known to be blooming above the libraries of the past but in contemplating such catastrophies one can attach blame to no-one, except perhaps the archaeologist and the archaeologically interested public who failed to excavate these sites while there was yet time. The new buildings, the new roads these new gardens are healthy signs of modern progress which no sane person could wish to check and no man could hope to regulate.'
Lantern slide. Showing the Island of Elephantine. This photograph was taken by Sgt. Johnson of the 436 Welsh Field Company c. 1917. It formed part of a lecture which he gave. The notes from his lecture read 'Here we have the Island of Elephantine which extends for about a mile and a half...One of the most recent finds in recent years was made in 1907. Immediately behind the rest house a chamber was discovered in which were several small stone sarcophagi and on opening they were found to contain the mummies of the sacred rams of Khnum of the Ptolemaic Period....'. This view is similar to EC1750.
Jersey, New Zealand, 2015, Black with 'Adidas' logo, 'AIG' sponsor in white. Fern leaf motif and 'All Blacks' on left breast. signed in silver marker pen by 'All Blacks' Rugby World Cup Squad players.
Slogan: Unity is Strength (both sides)
This was the first Trade Union Banner to appear on the picket line outside Pentonville Jail in support of the five dockers leaders imprisoned in July 1972.
Lantern slide. Showing the Kom Ombo from the river. This photograph was taken by Sgt. Johnson of the 436 Welsh Field Company c. 1917. It formed part of a lecture which he gave. The notes from his lecture read 'Thirty five miles from Assuaan in a northerly direction we come to the temple of Kom Ombo... which is beautifully situated on the east bank of the river Nile...On the south side the temple is continually menaced by the water which had already swallowed a large portion of the terrace and one side of the entrance pylon before it was held in check by the construction of a stone embankement in 1893...'. This is a similar view to EC1718.
Lantern slide. Showing the Delta barrage at Cairo. This photograph was taken by Sgt. Johnson of the 436 Welsh Field Company c. 1917. It formed part of a lecture which he gave. The barrage was designed by the French engineer Moughal Bey and was finally complete in 1862. It was replaced by a new barrage in 1939. This view is similar to EC1748.
The left-hand portrait dates from when Frank was a pupil at Charterhouse aged about 15. The right-hand photograph was taken at Oxford University while he was an undergraduate at Magdalen College from 1891. He graduated during the summer of 1894 in Natural Science, specialising in Chemistry.
Isabel Frances de Winton Thomas of Glanmor (1868 – 1955). Frank’s portrait with his signature during his early years helping to manage the family firm and around the time of his betrothal to Isabel.
In 1976, the National Union of Mineworkers (South Wales Area) deposited Andrew Turner's dramatic portrayal of the 1921 lockout with the South Wales Miners' Library. The three panels depict solidarity, betrayal and defeat. (Photograph courtesy of the National Coal Mining Museum for England from their Andrew Turner exhibition entitled 'The Pits and the Pendulums - Coal Miners versus Free Markets' in 2010).
