Record

Ref NoSWCC/PHO/DIS/1
TitleDisputes of 1875: printed copies of sketches produced by the Illustrated London News concerning the lockout in South Wales
DescriptionPrints include the following scenes:
A view of Dowlais from the cinder heaps
Dowlais market place receiving pit-horses
Miners waiting for relief outside the workhouse at Merthyr
An emigration agent lecturing in the Temperance Hall at Merthyr
Miners and their families stone breaking
Miners visiting a coal owner to settle accounts and gain permission to pick coal from the tips
Miners and their families in a queue at the Pawn Office in Merthyr Tydfil
Datend
SubjectCoal mining
Strikes
Disputes
Relief
Emigrants
Coal tips
Coal owners
Physical DescriptionBlack and white reprints
Place_CodeANW/PLACE/186
ANW/PLACE/24
ANW/PLACE/400
Extent5 photographs [239mm x 172mm (2); 239mm x 354mm (3)]
Places
CodeSet
ANW/PLACE/186Merthyr Tydfil/Wales
ANW/PLACE/24Mid Glamorgan/Wales
ANW/PLACE/400Dowlais/Wales
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