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Wales Collection (page 4)

Background imageWales Collection: Steam

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

Background imageWales Collection: Bus Stop

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)

Background imageWales Collection: Army At Tonypandy

Army At Tonypandy
1910: Military tents at the colliery during the Tonypandy strike. (Photo by Topical Press Agency/Getty Images)

Background imageWales Collection: Welsh Riot

Welsh Riot
24th August 1911: Mobs congregating at dusk during Anti-Semitic riots in Bargoed and other Welsh towns due to scarcities caused by the transport strike

Background imageWales Collection: Welsh Riot

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

Background imageWales Collection: Welsh Coal Mine

Welsh Coal Mine
December 1910: Steam billowing out of the coal mine at Bargoed near Cardiff. (Photo by Topical Press Agency/Getty Images)

Background imageWales Collection: Colliery Disaster

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)

Background imageWales Collection: What The Butler Saw

What The Butler Saw
27th June 1935: Holidaymakers view What The Butler Saw picture peep shows (mutoscopes) on the pier at Llandudno, North Wales. (Photo by E. Dean/Topical Press Agency/Getty Images)

Background imageWales Collection: The Boat Train

The Boat Train
4th September 1909: The dining car of the Lusitanias boat train, at Fishguard. (Photo by Topical Press Agency/Getty Images)

Background imageWales Collection: Dockside Cranes

Dockside Cranes
circa 1907: Cranes for unloading coal on the new export side of Cardiff docks. (Photo by Topical Press Agency/Getty Images)

Background imageWales Collection: North East Wales

North East Wales
Wrexham, Llangollen Canal, Pontcysyllte Aqueduct and Canal, World Heritage Site, iron trough carrying canal high over Dee valley

Background imageWales Collection: Caernarfon, Gwynedd, Wales

Caernarfon, Gwynedd, Wales
Caernarfon Castle was constructed by King Edward I of England following his conquest of Gwynedd in 1283

Background imageWales Collection: Caernarfon, Gwynedd, Wales

Caernarfon, Gwynedd, Wales
The majestic castle of Caernarfon is situated at the mouth of the Seiont river. The castle was built in 1823 by King Edward 1

Background imageWales Collection: North East Wales

North East Wales
Wrexham, Llangollen Canal, Pontcysyllte Aqueduct and Canal, World Heritage Site, iron trough carrying canal high over Dee valley

Background imageWales Collection: North East Wales

North East Wales
Wrexham, Llangollen Canal, Pontcysyllte Aqueduct and Canal, World Heritage Site, iron trough carrying canal high over Dee valley

Background imageWales Collection: North East Wales

North East Wales
Wrexham, Llangollen Canal, Pontcysyllte Aqueduct and Canal, World Heritage Site, iron trough carrying canal high over Dee valley

Background imageWales Collection: British Ferry

British Ferry
July 1968: The ferry to Holyhead in Wales in the harbour at Dun Laoghaire in the Irish Republic. (Photo by H. J. Allen/Evening Standard/Getty Images)

Background imageWales Collection: Steel Works

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

Background imageWales Collection: Charlottes Funeral

Charlottes Funeral
1817: The funeral procession at Windsor Castle of Princess Charlotte Augusta, (1796 - 1817), the only daughter of King George IV and Caroline of Brunswick

Background imageWales Collection: Obsolete Machinery

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

Background imageWales Collection: Lighting Candles

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

Background imageWales Collection: Hiking Onwards

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

Background imageWales Collection: Tryweryn Valley

Tryweryn Valley
A view of the Tryweryn Valley near Bala, Merionethshire, Wales, 27th February 1957. In 1957, a private bill was passed by Parliament to flood the valley in order to create the Llyn Celyn reservoir

Background imageWales Collection: Tryweryn Valley

Tryweryn Valley
A man and a boy look out over the Tryweryn Valley near Bala, Merionethshire, Wales, 27th February 1957. In 1957, a private bill was passed by Parliament to flood the valley in order to create

Background imageWales Collection: Cwmcarn Flooding

Cwmcarn Flooding
A breach in the High Road and canal from the bursting of the Cwmcarn Reservoir, 1875. Illustrated London News - pub. 1875. (Photo by Hulton Archive/Getty Images)

Background imageWales Collection: Sixteenth Century Britain

Sixteenth Century Britain
An early sixteenth century map of Great Britain, from The Cotton Library, circa 1500. (Photo by Hulton Archive/Getty Images)

Background imageWales Collection: Servants At Erdigg

Servants At Erdigg
The domestic staff at Erdigg Hall, the home of the Yorke family in Wrexham, North Wales, 1852. They are head gardener James Phillips, coachman Edward Humphries, laundry maid Elizabeth Alford

Background imageWales Collection: Cottage

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)

Background imageWales Collection: Conway Castle

Conway Castle (also Conwy) in Carnarvonshire, north-west Wales, built by Edward I to subdue the Welsh in about 1284. Original Artwork

Background imageWales Collection: Welsh Quarry

Welsh Quarry
A black marble quarry near Red Wharf Bay in Anglesea. Original Artwork: Aquatint by William Daniell (Photo by Hulton Archive/Getty Images)

Background imageWales Collection: Brighton Pavilion

Brighton Pavilion
circa 1825: The Indian-style domes of the Royal Pavilion at Brighton, built by Henry Holland and John Nash for King George IV, then Prince of Wales. Original Artwork: Drawn and engraved by J Bruce

Background imageWales Collection: Welsh Custom

Welsh Custom
circa 1850: Friends of a newly married couple bringing wedding presents to a Bidding in Wales. Original Artwork: Engraving by Newman & Co (Photo by Hulton Archive/Getty Images)

Background imageWales Collection: Britannia Bridge

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)

Background imageWales Collection: Magdalen College

Magdalen College
28th August 1912: A south-west view from the rooms at Magdalen College used by Edward VIII, (1894 - 1972), then Prince of Wales and an Oxford undergraduate

Background imageWales Collection: On Board Bar

On Board Bar
Passengers drinking in one of the bars on board the Cunard liner SS Mauretania as it draws into Fishguard, Pembroke. (Photo by Topical Press Agency/Getty Images)

Background imageWales Collection: SS Mauretania

SS Mauretania
Crowds on a ferry watching the Cunard liner SS Mauretania draw into Fishguard, Pembroke. (Photo by Topical Press Agency/Getty Images)

Background imageWales Collection: SS Mauretania

SS Mauretania
The stern of the Cunard liner SS Mauretania as she nears the coast at Fishguard in Pembroke. (Photo by Topical Press Agency/Getty Images)

Background imageWales Collection: Shore Leave

Shore Leave
Passengers are transferred from the Cunard liner SS Mauretania to her tender before being transported to shore at Fishguard, Pembroke. (Photo by Topical Press Agency/Getty Images)

Background imageWales Collection: Lone Seamen

Lone Seamen
Two seamen are drawn behind the stern of the Cunard liner SS Mauretania at Fishguard, Pembroke. (Photo by Topical Press Agency/Getty Images)

Background imageWales Collection: Aquitania Arrival

Aquitania Arrival
Crowds on a ferry watching the arrival of the Cunard liner Aquitania at Fishguard, Pembroke. (Photo by Topical Press Agency/Getty Images)

Background imageWales Collection: SS Mauretania

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)

Background imageWales Collection: Abandoning Ship

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)

Background imageWales Collection: The Lusitania

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

Background imageWales Collection: Leopard

Leopard
circa 1909: A Fellow of the Zoological Society in his top hat reaches out to a caged Prince of Wales leopard at the zoo. (Photo by Topical Press Agency/Getty Images)



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