Wales Black Collection

Lost In Sheep
11th August 1951: A flock of sheep manoeuvre their way around a parked car on their way down the slopes of Snowdonia, at Hafod-y-Llan, Wales

Steel Furnace
16th August 1952: Liquid metal spraying out of the furnace at Thomas and Baldwins steel works in Ebbw Vale, Wales. Original Publication: Picture Post - 6005 - Steel Town - pub

Leaving Fishguard
30th August 1909: A railway train departs from Fishguard Station. (Photo by Topical Press Agency/Getty Images)

Sand Racing
21st June 1913: Competitors in the South Wales and Cardiff Motor Cycle Speed Trials racing along the beach at Rest Bay Sands, Porthcawl. (Photo by Topical Press Agency/Getty Images)

Snowdonia Shepherd
11th August 1951: A shepherd with his flock at Hafod-y-Llan in Snowdonia. Original Publication: Picture Post - 5377 - Shearing Time In Snowdonia - pub

Swimming Sheep
11th August 1951: Sheep-dipping during the shearing season in Hafod-y-Llan, Wales. Original Publication: Picture Post - 5377 - Shearing Time In Snowdonia - pub

Snowdonia Sheep
11th August 1951: Sheep in Hafod-y-Llan, Snowdonia, Wales. Original Publication: Picture Post - 5377 - Shearing Time In Snowdonia - pub. 1951 (Photo by Grace Robertson/Picture Post/Getty Images)

Snowdonia Sheep
11th August 1951: Snowdonia sheep farmer, Pyrs Williams, with his flock, at Hafod-y-Llan. Original Publication: Picture Post - 5377 - Shearing Time In Snowdonia - pub

Boat Train
30th August 1909: The first passenger boat train leaves Fishguard for London, carrying passengers from the liner, SS Mauretania moored at Fishguard, in Wales

Britannia Bridge
September 1848: Robert Stephensons Britannia Bridge under construction. Original Artwork: Engraving by G Hawkins (Photo by Hulton Archive/Getty Images)

Railway Walk under a railway bridge in the dockland area of Cardiff
22nd April 1950: A man walking under a railway bridge in the dockland area of Cardiff, known as Bute Town or Tiger Bay. Original Publication: Picture Post - 5020 - Down The Bay - pub

SS Aquitania
16th June 1920: The Cunard liner, the Aquitania, arrives at the port of Fishguard, on the return of her maiden voyage. (Photo by Hulton Archive/Getty Images)

Coal Baskets
December 1910: Coal baskets travelling on wire pulleys at the Bargoed Colliery in Wales. (Photo by Topical Press Agency/Getty Images)

Welsh Riot
25th August 1911: Shops boarded up after looting by Anti-Semitic mobs in Ebbw-Vale and Tredegar in which Jewish shops and property were wrecked. (Photo by Topical Press Agency/Getty Images)

Lining The Decks
circa 1907: People lining the decks of the Torrington, at Cardiff docks, when they were officially opened by the King and Queen. (Photo by Topical Press Agency/Getty Images)

Aberystwyth
4th January 1908: Great Darkgate Street, Aberystwyth, Cardiganshire, central Wales. (Photo by Topical Press Agency/Getty Images)

Steam
circa 1910: A release of steam at the Bargoed Colliery in Wales. (Photo by Topical Press Agency/Getty Images)

Bus Stop
12th August 1912: A Railways bus stops to allow passengers to alight at a stop in Trefriw. (Photo by Topical Press Agency/Getty Images)

Welsh Riot
25th August 1911: The raising of rents and the price of perishable goods during the transport strike caused the violent outburst of anti-semitic riots at Ebbw-Vale

Colliery Disaster
circa 1927: A general view of the Ebbw Vale Colliery, where forty miners where killed by an explosion in the pit. (Photo by Topical Press Agency/Getty Images)

Steel Works
29th April 1939: Railtracks which bring locomotives to and from the Guest Keen Baldwins steel works in Cardiff, Wales. Original Publication: Picture Post - 116 - Steel - pub

Obsolete Machinery
28th March 1953: Machinery in a tinplateworks in South Wales factory which is due to close. This is because of the building of giant strip-mills which need fewer workers to run them

Lighting Candles
24th July 1948: A devotee lighting candles at the shrine at Holywell, North Wales. The shrine is sacred to St Winefride, who supposedly rose from the dead by a miracle

Hiking Onwards
18th June 1949: Boys hiking along a village lane, during an expedition which will be the climax of one months stay for boys at the Outward Bound Sea School at Aberdovey

Summit Of Snowdon
May 1914: The summit of Mount Snowdon. (Photo by Hulton Archive/Getty Images)

Graving Dock
circa 1900: The steam yacht, Lizzie, in the graving dock of Bute dockyard, Cardiff. (Photo by Hulton Archive/Getty Images)

Disembarking
2nd May 1908: Passengers being taken off the SS Ambrose, by the tender Drake, at Fishguard harbour. (Photo by Hulton Archive/Getty Images)

Swansea Docks
circa 1900: A view of the docks at Swansea. (Photo by Hulton Archive/Getty Images)

Welsh Village
circa 1930: A quiet street in Castleton village in Wales. (Photo by Hulton Archive/Getty Images)

Policemen Prepare
1st November 1910: A group of policemen, carrying their bedding, prepare for a long fight during the coal strike in Tony Pandy. (Photo by Hulton Archive/Getty Images)

Glamorgan Colliery
1st November 1910: Amateur stokers work in the Glamorgan Colliery during the Tony Pandy strikes and riots. (Photo by Hulton Archive/Getty Images)

Rescue Party
1905: A rescue party waiting to descend the mine shaft in the worst Welsh mining disaster for 11 years at the Wattstown Colliery in the Rhondda Valley

Pumping Machinery
circa 1910: Pumping machinery in the Glamorgan Colliery, at Tony-Pandy, Wales. (Photo by Hulton Archive/Getty Images)

Caban Coch Dam
circa 1950: Caban Coch Dam in the Elan Valley. (Photo by Hulton Archive/Getty Images)

Welsh Spinners
1910: A Welsh woman and her children, from Bettws-y-Coed, spinning. (Photo by Bedford/Hulton Archive/Getty Images)

Fisherwomen
1910: Fisherwomen at Tenby in Wales. (Photo by Hulton Archive/Getty Images)

Railway Bus
12th August 1912: A London and North Western Railway bus to Llambenis. (Photo by Hulton Archive/Getty Images)

Go-Cart
circa 1910: Children riding on a go-cart, in Swansea. (Photo by Chapman/Hulton Archive/Getty Images)

Menai Strait Bridge
circa 1878: The bridge over the Menai Strait, near Caernarvon. (Photo by Hulton Archive/Getty Images)

Barry Rail
1895: Freight trucks on the Railway at Barry Dock and Barry Island, with sailing ships moored to the jetties. (Photo by Hulton Archive/Getty Images)

Slate Quarry
circa 1890: Workers cutting slate outside a slate quarry in Llanberris, North Wales. (Photo by Hulton Archive/Getty Images)

Cottage
1815: A view of a cottage on the Isle of Anglesey, near the Paris Mine, engraved by F Stevens and published in 1815. (Photo by Hulton Archive/Getty Images)

Britannia Bridge
23rd March 1850: The entrance to the Britannia Tubular Bridge, designed by Robert Stephenson. Original Publication: Illustrated London News (Photo by Rischgitz/Getty Images)

SS Mauretania
20th September 1909: Workmen on the gangplank of the Cunard liner SS Mauretania at Fishguard Docks, Pembroke. (Photo by Topical Press Agency/Getty Images)

Abandoning Ship
30th August 1909: Passengers transfer from the Cunard liner SS Mauretania to the ships tender, before reaching the shore at Fishguard, Pembroke. (Photo by Topical Press Agency/Getty Images)

The Lusitania
14th September 1909: The Cunard liner the Lusitania arrives at Fishguard. (Photo by Topical Press Agency/Getty Images)

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