Recorded memoirs of Henry Lewis. Remembers people pulling together during the 1921 lockout and 1926 strike, double rent imposed on company-owned houses at the end of the lockout in an attempt to pull back lost rent, the legacy of debt and how the lockout was an equaliser of people.
Recorded memoirs of Henry Lewis. Remembers people pulling together during the 1921 lockout and 1926 strike, double rent imposed on company-owned houses at the end of the lockout in an attempt to pull back lost rent, the legacy of debt and how the lockout was an equaliser of people.
Slogan: Mewn Undeb Mae Nerth A Heddwch (back)
In the foreground is a picture of a white miner (left) and a coloured miner (right) holding a miner's lamp between them. The background depicts a yellow and red globe (both sides).
Lantern slide. Showing the Karnak temple and avenue of sphinxes. 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 Pylon and the famous avenue of Sphinx'. This is a similar view to EC1727.
Lantern slide of Jerusalem. 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 'General view of the Mount of Olives showing the Garden of Gethsemene and the Church of St Mary Magdalene'. This view is similar to EC1774 and EC1803.
British Isles tour jersey 1930, belonging to Swansea ans Wales forward Dai Parker. Blue with three lions logo on breast. White number 17 on back. Some discolouration from water damage to front.
Gelli Lodge Banner.
Slogan: A J Cook From Obscurity To Respect
A large picture of A J Cook in the middle. In the top left-hand corner there is an intertwined pick and shovel, and in the top right-hand corner there is a colliery winding tower (both sides).
Wedding of Marian Phillips and John Henry Jones at Bethesda Welsh Baptist Chapel, Swansea on September 6, 1941
Back row, standing:
Rev W.P.Thomas (Beulah, Cwmtwrch); Rev D.H. Thomas (Wesleyan Methodist, Pontardulais;) Haydn Williams (best man); John Henry Jones; Marian Phillips; Gwilym Phillips; Rev S.J. Leeke (Bethesda, Swansea) Edmor Phillips; Rev Môn Williams (Siloam, Brynaman)
seated:
Jane Griffith Jones May Phillips bridesmaid: Wenona Phillips (bride’s sister)
Taken by H.A. Chapman, Swansea. Their studio was destroyed by enemy action in February 1942.
Lantern slide. Showing the birth house of the Temple of Isis on 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 'The Temple of Hathor stands immediately to the east of the second Pylon. It consists of a hall and a pronaos, the other chambers being now destroyed. The hall had six pillars on either side which are now only standing in part.' The slide shows the birth house with Hathor headed columns on the right and behind that, on the left of the picture, the First Pylon. This is a similar view to negative EC1703 and EC1716.
The pamphlet consists of a discussion on the role of wages and the price of coal in relation to the events of the 1921 lock-out. The narrative describes in detail how the Government and Coal Owners’ plan would impact different coal producing areas and individual collieries. An emphasis is placed upon the question of why these two organisations were so adverse to treating the coal industry as a single homogenous unit.
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).
