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.
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.
“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
Photograph, B&W, mounted. The Glamorgan team that played New Zealand at Swansea on 21st December 1905. Photographed by A & G Taylor of Castle Street, Swansea. Dimensions: w18" x h14" (w45.75cm x h35.5cm)
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.
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.
Peter Thonemann (on the left), at Culham in the late 1950s with the Leader of the Labour Party, Hugh Gaitskell, and the (probably at the time) Shadow Foreign Secretary, Aneurin Bevan (second and third from the right, respectively). The identity of the fourth person in the photograph is not known [44].
On the occasion of the Autumn 1958 Conference of the Physical Society of Great Britain. Shown outside the Physics Department are, from left to right: Dr C.G. Morgan; Professor H.S.W. Massey FRS [23], who delivered the inaugural address to the meeting; Dr. H.T. Miles; Professor J.M. Somerville; the Society President Professor J.A. Ratcliffe FRS; Mr. D. Harcombe; Dr A.C. Stickland, the Society Secretary; Professor F.M. Bruce; Professor F.L. Jones and Dr J. Dutton.
Photograph of the visit of Professor Sir G.P. Thomson FRS, seated on the right hand side of Professor Llewellyn Jones who is third from the left in the front row. Also pictured are, according to Colyn Grey Morgan, in the back row left to right: Glyn Clement Williams (shoulder only), Sid Haydon, Colyn himself, Melville Rhys Hopkins, Jack Dutton and Roy Griffin; front row: in addition to the above, Percy Maurice Davidson on the far left and Leonard Wright on the far right.
Only the identities of the front row (mostly), plus one other, are known. Seated, left to right are: unknown student; L. Wright; W. Morris Jones; E.J. Evans; E.S. Keeping; F. Homeyard; Phyllis Jones. The person standing on the extreme right is D. Owen Jones who, with Phyllis Jones, is explicitly identified on the rear of the original framed photograph as a researcher.
