Business conditions worsened after 1920 as the post-war mini-boom ended. The trade press responded with promotional material and Frank contributed an upbeat article heralding modern developments and the promise of higher education [21]. W. Gilbertson & Co. Ltd. advertised their full range of products, including some long-established brands which had been manufactured for decades.
Lantern slide. Showing the Luxor temple colonnade. 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 Luxor Colonnade. Here we see the different class of work. Rameses built on a bigger scale. Near here is an English Cemetery. Ernest Harold Jones artist, School of Art Carmarthen buried....'.
Grogg sculpture of Mervyn Davies wearing Red Wales jersey with P.O.W. feathers on breast and white headband. Height 9" (22.86 cm). Hand painted. Engraved Mervyn Davies signature to front of base. Reverse has hand painted information: "LIMITED EDITION #8/38 CAP No8 WALES 6 SOUTH AFRICA 6 24th JANUARY 1970 CARDIFF ARMS PARK" Engraved signature by artist: Richard Hughes and "World of Groggs" motif beneath.
Portrait of Mary Gilbertson painted in 1915 by the Belgian artist André Cluysenaar, which now hangs in the Council Room (formerly the Great Dining Room) of Singleton Abbey. Hugh Vivian (1884 – 1956) photographed in 1917 in the uniform of the Army Service Corps.
This was a logistics division, supplying the front lines with food, equipment and ammunition, and organising transportation by horse and motor vehicles, railways and waterways.
