Merthyr Collection

Bedwas Navigation Colliery, Monmouthshire, South Wales
View of Lewis Merthyr Pit, Bedwas Navigation Colliery, Monmouthshire, South Wales. The colliery opened in 1913 and closed in the mid-1980s, after the Miners Strike

Thomas Merthyr Guest, Vanity Fair, CG
THOMAS MERTHYR GUEST (1838-1904) Wealthy landowner, shown on horseback in red hunting jacket, smoking a pipe. Caption: Blackmore Vale Date: 1838 - 1904

Merthyr Tydfil boys playing
Two boys play on a bench above the steel works (now closed) at Merthyr Tydfil. Vintage black and white image. First published The Sunday Times c1989 1989

Merthyr Tydfil early 1900s

Merthyr Tydfil

Lewis Merthyr colliery, Wales
The Lewis Merthyr pit, Trehafod, in the Rhondda Valley, Wales. The pit closed in June 1983, the second to last pit to close in the Rhondda

Men of a Co-Operative - Bethesda Street, Merthyr, Wales. Date: circa 1909

Pontsarn Sanatorium, Merthyr Tydfil, Glamorgan, Wales
Pontsarn Sanatorium, in the parish of Vaynor, near Merthyr Tydfil, Glamorgan, Wales. The sanatorium was established in 1913 by the Merthyr Tydfil Union for the treatment of tuberculosis patients

Miners Strike, Wales
South Wales miners families pawning their possessions during lock-out, at Merthyr Tydfil. Date: 1875

Train snowed in, Wales in the winter of 1947
A train and locomotive brought to a standstill by snow drifts on the line between Merthyr and Abergavenny following the renewed blizzards of early March during one of the coldest recorded winters in

The Village, Merthyr Mawr, Glamorgan
The Village, Merthyr Mawr, Bridgend, near Porthcawl, Glamorgan, Wales. Date: 1920

High Street, Dowlais, Glamorgan
High Street, Dowlais, Merthyr Tydfil, Glamorgan, Wales. Showing the Old Bristol House Date: 1900s

Merthyr Tydfil Union Cottage Homes, Llwydcoed, Glamorgan
Merthyr Tydfil Union cottage homes at Llwydcoed, near Aberdare, Glamorgan. The homes, which house pauper children away from the workhouse, were erected in around 1912. Date: Date unknown

Bridgend Cottage Homes, Glamorgan
The Bridgend Unions cottage homes at Merthyr Mawr Road, to the south of Bridgend. The homes, opened in 1879, housed pauper children away from the workhouse

Large Welsh Banquet / 1846
The Cyfarthfa Banquet given by William Crawshay to the ladies of Merthyr Tydfil and the vicinity in acknowledgement of the high honour paid to his son and bride on their return

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