Rhondda Collection

Gelli coalmine, Rhondda, South Wales
View of the Gelli coalmine, Rhondda, South Wales. Date: 1935

Swing Bridge, River Neath, Neath, Port Talbot, South Wales
View of the Swing Bridge over the River Neath, at Neath, Port Talbot, South Wales, a railway bridge, opened in 1892, which carried the former Rhondda and Swansea Bay Railway near Skewen

Miners from Fernhill Colliery, Glamorgan, South Wales
A black-faced miner, carrying his small daughter, his wife shielding her face, at Fernhill in the Rhondda. He has just emerged from 292 hours underground in a stay-in miners strike at Fernhill

Welsh Colliery / 1960
Parc Colliery, at Cwm Parc in the Rhondda Valley

Ferndale Colliery and Tylorstown, Glamorgan, South Wales
View of Ferndale Colliery (also known as Blaenllechau Colliery) and Tylorstown, Rhondda Valley, Glamorgan, South Wales

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

The prolific English author Edmee Elizabeth Monica Dashwood (1890-1943), commonly known as E. M. Delafield, and Lorna Lewis, British writer ()

COAL / RHONDDA FETE
Fete in celebration of Winning the Coal on the Rhondda branch of the Taff Vale Railway Date: 1851

Cardiff Strike - Policemen - Tonypandy Riots
Cardiff Strike - London Policeman brought in to aid management of rioting miners. The Tonypandy Riots, sometimes known as the Rhondda Riots

Rhondda Valley / 1960
The mining village of Treherbert at the head of the Rhondda Fawr in South Wales. Date: 1960

Llwynypia Homes, Rhondda, South Wales
The Llwynypia Homes, Rhondda, South Wales, were opened in 1903 as a subsidiary workhouse for the Pontypridd Poor Law Union

Police at a Tonypandy colliery, Glamorgan, South Wales
Numerous policemen (nicknamed Devonshires) on duty at a colliery engine house in the Tonypandy area of Glamorgan, South Wales, during the riots of 1910

Wartime Hunting - a day with the suburban hounds (rationing)
Humorous drawing by H. H. Harris commenting on rationing in Britain in 1918 using the metaphor of hunting. Lord Rhondda, who served as Food Controller, is Master of the Hounds

Eve talks to Lord Rhondda, the Food Controller, WW1
Eve, the fictional gossip columnist of The Tatler magazine, lectures Lord Rhondda, the Food Controller during the latter part of the First World War, on the fact that his economy campaign

Lord and Lady Rhondda
David Alfred Thomas, 1st Viscount Rhondda (1856-1918), Welsh industrialist and Liberal politician who served at Food Controller at the Ministry of Food towards the end of the First World War

Hopkinstown Colliery, Glamorgan, South Wales
View of Hopkinstown Colliery, Rhondda Valleys, Glamorgan, South Wales, as seen from the cemetery

Llwynypia Hospital, Pontypridd, Glamorgan, Wales
A view of Llwynypia Hospital at Llwynypia near Pontypridd in the Rhondda, Glamorgan, Wales. A field of potatoes can be seen at the right

Llwynypia Homes, Pontypridd, Glamorgan, Wales
The Llwynypia Homes, near Pontypridd in the Rhondda, Glamorgan, Wales, were opened in 1903 as a subsidiary workhouse for the Pontypridd Poor Law Union

Tonypandy Coal Strike
TONYPANDY COAL STRIKE A group of London police brought in to control the riots in Tonypandy, Rhondda

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