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.
Slogan: An Injury To One Is The Concern Of All
The slogan is from the American "Wobblies", an early twentieth century Marxist/Syndicalist labour movement. There is an inscription on the bottom right-hand corner 'Sutton G C G'.
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.
Slogan: Workers of the World Unite for Peace and Socialism
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).
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).
Jersey, Maesteg RFC from 1990s, black with thin yellow hoop and collar. Maesteg RFC badge on breast and Revlon sponsor on front. Number 26 in black on yellow square on back
Lantern slide. Showing the obelisks of Hatshepsut and Thuthmose I at Karnak. 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 obelisk of Queen Hattisu at Karnak which is of equal size to this, was quarried out and despatched and erected in seven months from the time at which the order for it was given....'. This view is similar to EC1749.
Lantern slide. Showing a village in Nubia. 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 'This is the Bishereen Arab camp at Nubia between Assouan and Philae. It gives one a good idea of the type of dwellings that are to be seen throughout Egypt in most of the villages...'
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.
The pamphlet, The Miners' Conflict with the Mineowners, was written in support of the miners. John Thomas gave a lecture at the South Wales Miners' Library in 1974, as the Coalfield Project was coming to an end.
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 'The temple of Luxor often alluded to as the most beautiful colonnade in Egypt, the south end of this temple was erected by Amenhotep 3rd in the 18th Dynasty and the north end by Rameses the Great'. This is a similar view to EC1723 and EC1724, EC1725.
Fig. 3: Swansea Physicists outside the department in the late 1950s. Professor G.P. Thomson (visiting Nobel Laureate) is seated, second from the left, and on his left is Professor Frank Llewellyn Jones. Professor (then Dr.) Colyn Grey Morgan is standing behind, and slightly to the left of Thomson.
Ireland jersey worn by Ireish wing Walter Bornemann, from Wales v Ireland on 12 march 1960. Presented by Swansea and Wales wing Dewi Bebb in 1966. Green with Irish shamrock emblem on breast. No number on back.
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.'
This enormous canvas (top) by Percy Gleaves (1882-1944) hangs on the landing of Singleton Abbey, having recently been restored.
Before laying the foundation stone (bottom left), King George V presents the Royal Charter to Frank Gilbertson, first President of the University College of Swansea. The foundation stone was subsequently “lost” in the Swansea Corporation yard for 17 years [15, p. 89] until it was re-laid in the wall of the 1937 Library (bottom right), the first purpose-built permanent building to be constructed on the campus.
The hefty chains holding the stone suggest industrial heavy engineering – not inappropriate to the founders of the institution. The sunny parkland setting and rather naive style of the painting add to the air of symbolism.
Lantern slide. Showing the a djed pillar at the temple of Sety I at Abydos. 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 Rod of Stability in Column form'.
