The total percentage dividend payable on ordinary share capital (as compiled in Table 2 of Peter Jackson’s book [4, p. 245]) is plotted in blue for each financial year. No dividend was paid in 1903 and 1904 to allow profits to be re-invested in new plant, which repaid handsomely over the next few years. In contrast, after 1920 profits dwindled and there are no records of dividend payments after 1925.
Frank’s increasing involvement with establishing the University College of Swansea is indicated below the time axis from 1916 onwards, with his two periods as President after the Foundation on 19th July 1920 shown by the solid red line.
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.
Table 1. Abridged list of Physics Department material held in the Richard Burton Archive. Sadly, there are few entries in the 1922 laboratory log book.
The photograph is of academic staff and guests and (likely) Student Officers of the Society. Certainly Colin Evans, here on the extreme left, was then the Chair.
Slogan: Proletarians of all Countries Unite. To the fighting British Miners' wives from the working women of Krasnaya Presna. Moscow, June 1926
Dai Lloyd Davies, Secretary of Mardy Lodge brought the banner back from Moscow. He had accepted it on behalf of the British workers and their wives from the women of Krasnaya Presna, when he’d been in Moscow during the 1926 lockout to acknowledge the financial support given to South Wales miners by the Russians.
It was deposited at the SWML in 1974, having been located in the office of the Communist Party in Cardiff.
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).
“We trust and believe that the buildings which are to rise upon this site will become the home of high ideals and lofty purpose and of unfailing efforts for the advancement of learning, the improvement of industry, and the betterment of civilisation.”, welcome address [16, p. 92] by Frank Gilbertson at the foundation ceremony, 19th July 1920.
Most of the “temporary” science “pavilions” built to the west of Singleton Abbey between 1922 and 1925 lasted more than 50 years [15, p. 98]. Student numbers [15, p. 119] grew from 89 in 1920-21, to 382 in 1925-26, reaching 485 in 1930-31, just after this photograph was taken
Slogan: 1905 led to the victory of the Krasnaya Presna Working Women. Let your heroic struggle herald you victory over capitalism. Long live the proletarian revolution in Great Britain. Long live its skirmishers, the British Miners (back)
A five pointed star above the world which has a hammer and sickle over the front of it. This is surrounded by a wreath of wheat which has a ribbon with Russian writing wrapped around it
Dai Lloyd Davies, Secretary of Mardy Lodge brought the banner back from Moscow. He had accepted it on behalf of the British workers and their wives from the women of Krasnaya Presna, when he’d been in Moscow during the 1926 lockout to acknowledge the financial support given to South Wales miners by the Russians.
It was deposited at the SWML in 1974, having been located in the office of the Communist Party in Cardiff.
Recorded memoirs of Lee Hutchinson. Comments on returning to work after the 1921 lockout and signing new contracts with a reduction in wages, recalls lack of financial assistance and how his family survived on savings, reflects on the support provided by soup kitchens and the Parish. Also remembers the fine weather, playing cricket during the days and cards in the local institute in the evenings.
Recorded memoirs of Lee Hutchinson. Comments on returning to work after the 1921 lockout and signing new contracts with a reduction in wages, recalls lack of financial assistance and how his family survived on savings, reflects on the support provided by soup kitchens and the Parish. Also remembers the fine weather, playing cricket during the days and cards in the local institute in the evenings.
Lantern slide. Showing the Esna barrage. 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 barrage taken from the boat just after passing through the lock' The 'Esna barrage' built 1906-1908 is near Edfu. This view is similar to EC1790.
The arrival of the Particle Physics Theory Group in Swansea in 1992. From left to right are Professors Ian Halliday, Brian Clarkson (the College Principal), Albert Einstein and David Olive.
