Depression, War and recovery in Wales

Items relating to Depression, War and recovery in Wales, 1930-1951

Kayser Bondor Ladies' Underwear Factory, Merthyr Tydfil, 19 October 1951

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Workers at the Midland Metal Spinners Tea Pot Works, Neath, 16 November 1951

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St. Margaret's clothes factory, Aberbargoed, 9 November 1951

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Foty Slate Quarry, Blaenau Ffestiniog, 3 February 1950

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Workers at the Pullman Factory, Ammanford, 17 February 1950

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Cefn-mawr clay industry, Wrexham, 1 June 1950

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Workers at a clothing factory, Maesteg, 10 February 1950

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Workers at the Harlee Works, Neath, 16 November 1951

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Employee of the Prestonitt Jewel factory, Pengam, 30 November 1951

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Workers at the Berlei Bra Factory, Ebbw Vale, 30 November 1951

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Evacuees from Birkenhead arrive at Oswestry, 1939

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Evacuees from Birkenhead arrive at Oswestry, 1939

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Arrivals of Evacuees, 1939

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Children wearing their gas masks, 1939

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Schoolgirls in Oswestry learning sewing skills, 1939

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Schoolboys learning gardening skills, 1939

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Welshpool women's contribution to Lord Beaverbrook's campaign to collect scrap aluminium to make Spitfires, 1940

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Salvage squad organised by Welshpool Boys Club, 1940

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Bomb damage following the 'Three Night's Blitz' of Swansea, 1941

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Bomb damage following the 'Three Night's Blitz' of Swansea, 1941

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Bomb damage to Swansea Market following the 'Three Night's Blitz' of Swansea, 1941

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Bomb damage following the 'Three Night's Blitz' of Swansea, 1941

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The 'Three Night's Blitz' of Swansea, 1941

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Bomb damage following the 'Three Night's Blitz' of Swansea, 1941

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Bomb damage following the 'Three Night's Blitz' of Swansea, 1941

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King George VI's tour of Swansea following blitz, 1941

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Bomb damage following the 'Three Night's Blitz' of Swansea, 1941

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Bomb damage following the 'Three Night's Blitz' of Swansea, 1941

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Air raid shelter, Swansea, 1941

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City of Cardiff Air Raid Warden's certificate of appointment, 17 July 1939 [image 1 of 2]

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City of Cardiff Air Raid Warden's certificate of appointment, 17 July 1939 [image 2 of 2]

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Handbook entitled 'Anti-Gas protection of babies and young children', 1939 [front cover]

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Second World War headlamp cover used during the blackout

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De Burgh St, Riverside, Cardiff - the morning after the air raid of 2 January 1941

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Bomb damage at Howard Gardens Board School, Cardiff, 1941

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Bomb damage at Roath Court, Newport Road, Cardiff, 1941

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Woman carrying a baby in the

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Amgueddfa Cymru - Museum Wales

Ministry of Information printed circular 'Beating the Invader' with general instructions, 1941 [page 1, image 1 of 2]

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Merthyr Tydfil Borough Special Constable's tunic, worn by Special Constable Edward Besley, during and just after WW2, 1939-45

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South Wales Police Heritage Centre

Home Guard bludgeon, 1940-45

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South Wales Police Heritage Centre

Anti gas ointment No. 2, 1940s

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South Wales Police Heritage Centre

Police telephonist gas mask, 1938

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South Wales Police Heritage Centre

Lapel badge, Women's Auxiliary Police Corps, 1939-1946

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South Wales Police Heritage Centre

Women Unite For Peace Freedom & Security Banner, 1930s

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Group of items relating to Cpl. George Dudley of the Royal Engineers, 1940

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Tooled leather map of northern France, showing the Invasion Beaches of Normandy, made for the 49th Reconaissance Regiment, 1940s

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Cap badge of the 49th Reconnaissance Regiment, 1942 - 1946

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Commemorative plaque with regimental badge of the 49th Reconnaissance Regiment, 1942-1947

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Second World War light bulb used during the blackout

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Group of Slovenians at Oakdale Training Centre 1948

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Amgueddfa Cymru - Museum Wales

Lewis Merthyr Colliery, 1947

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Raymond George Isted, Bevin Boy, Roseheyworth Collier 1943 - 1949

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Nantgarw Colliery under construction May/June 1951

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Amgueddfa Cymru - Museum Wales

Cwmaman miners after returning home from work at Cwmneol Colliery, 1939

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Amgueddfa Cymru - Museum Wales

The Reading Room, Oakdale Institute about 1946

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Amgueddfa Cymru - Museum Wales

Abertillery Marchers' Committee poster

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Amgueddfa Cymru - Museum Wales

Cardiff: the industrial port. An aerial view showing the completed dock system about 1948.

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Amgueddfa Cymru - Museum Wales

The age of depression. Laid-up ships in Cardiff docks about 1930.

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Amgueddfa Cymru - Museum Wales

Banner of the Duffryn Rhondda Lodge of the National Union of Mineworkers, c. 1950

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Banner of the Ferndale Lodge of the South Wales Miners Federation, c. 1940

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Banner of the Mardy Lodge of the National Union of Mineworkers, c. 1950 [front face, image 1 of 2]

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Banner of the Mid Rhondda Marchers, 1936

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Banner of the Wernos Lodge of the South Wales Miners Federation, c. 1945

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Travel pass cover, 1951

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Womens Archive Wales

Sully TB Hospital, 1930

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Womens Archive Wales

St. Mary Street, Cardiff, c. 1935

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Llandarcy oil refinery, 1947

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Royal Commission on the Ancient and Historical Monuments of Wales

Celebrating a wedding reception in a prefab

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Living room in a Prefab displaying life in 1950

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Photo of May Jones, Land Army, 1939

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Womens Archive Wales

Photograph of Land Army Armband, 1939

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Womens Archive Wales

Workers at Cooke's Explosives, 1938

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Womens Archive Wales

Photograph after a day's baking, 1945

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Womens Archive Wales

Three girls on a day out, 1950's

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Womens Archive Wales

Winston Churchill's visit to Swansea after the blitz, 1941

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On 30 October 1929 the works were closed. In 1936 they were demolished.

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Amgueddfa Cymru - Museum Wales

The new works started production in 1938 and prosperity returned to the town of Ebbw Vale.

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Amgueddfa Cymru - Museum Wales

Ebbw Vale Steelworks' new Club and Institute, 1950

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David Morgan's department store opened in Cardiff in 1879. The store provided important support for the Brynmawr Furniture Company between 1932 and 1940.

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Amgueddfa Cymru - Museum Wales

The Cardiff National Eisteddfod Chair, 1938 from the Bryn-mawr Settlement Factory

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Amgueddfa Cymru - Museum Wales

Proud Valley, 1940

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South Wales Miners' Library

Cefn Coed Colliery, 1931

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Cefn Coed Colliery, early 1930s

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First Shift at Cefn Coed Colliery after Nationalisation

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Neath Port Talbot Library and Museum Service

German Generals at Island Farm Special German Base Camp 11, 1946

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Field Marshal von Rundstedt arriving at Island Farm Special Camp 1945 after transfer from Grizedale Hall in Northern England.

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Field Marshal von Rundstedt, a prisoner at Island Farm Special Camp following Second World War

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Major General Dornberger, a prisoner at Island Farm Special Camp following Second World War

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Island Farm Special Camp 11, Bridgend, 1974

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Land Army Badge, 1948

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Womens Archive Wales

Women's Land Army Breeches, 1948

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Womens Archive Wales

Royal Welsh Fusiliers, Ireland 1941

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Womens Archive Wales

Note celebrating victory in World War II

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Womens Archive Wales

Family War Record, 1946

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Womens Archive Wales

National Library of Wales, 1932

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Royal Commission on the Ancient and Historical Monuments of Wales

Abergavenny Air Raid Wardens' Service, October 1944

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'Dowlais from the cinder tips, Caeharris' by Cedric Morris, c. 1936-9 (oils)

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Newport Docks, 1947

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Royal Commission on the Ancient and Historical Monuments of Wales

101 Company, Monmouthshire Regiment, leaving Monmouth for Newport en route to France, 1939

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101 Company, Monmouthshire Regiment, leaving Monmouth for Newport en route to France, 1939

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