Casgliadau Arlein
Amgueddfa Cymru
Chwilio Uwch
Photograph album
Photograph album "Miscellaneous Photos of Brymbo and its associated works".
Hardback notebook containing 154 photographs, mainly of Brymbo works, but also a few of Hook Norton opencast iron ore workings. There are a number of empty mounts indicating that photographs have been removed at some date. There are also some loose photographs.
The blank pages have been documented below:
Page 4 : has two sets of brown adhesive photo corners [photographs missing] Caption below top set of photo corners, "Penygarth 1908". Caption on right-hand side of lower set of photo corners, "An Old Plan of Brymbo Ironwork and Colliery"
Page 4 : two sets of adhesive corners on page and handwritten captions "Penygarth 1908" and "An Old Plan of Brymbo Ironworks & Colliery" but the two prints are missing.
Page 6 : blank
Page 8 : torn on right handside at top and has four corners stuck to lower half of page but no print.
Page 9 : two adhesive corners below print and handwritten caption on right hand side reads "1908, Brymbo Coke Ovens" but print missing.
Page 12 : handwritten caption at foot of page "New Blast Furnace during erection" but print missing.
Page 14 : handwritten caption on right hand side of page " Water Seal put at bottom of downcorner 1933" but print missing.
Page 19 : handwritten caption on page "Dry Air Plant all about 1912" but print missing.
Page 22 : handwritten caption on page "Preparing to joint up seals to offtake tube" but print missing.
Page 28 : blank
Page 30 : blank
Page 31 : handwritten captions on page for two missing prints: "New Finishing Housings erected in Loco Shed. 1925. Aug"; "Jack Williiams" has also been written on page to the left-hand side of this missing print. And "No3 Reheating Furnace 1920 " and "Dick Evans" written on page above and below this missing print in lower left-hand corner of page.
Page 32 : blank
Page 34 : blank
Page 36 : blank [N.B. a page has been cut out of album after page 36]
Page 39 : handwritten caption in centre of page "West end of No6 Steel Furnace showing effect of eddying of outgoing gases into air downtake." but print missing.
Page 40 : blank page [N.B. a page has been cut out of album after page 40]
Page 44 : blank
Page 51 : corners for three photographs remain on page with handwritten captions in ink " Switchboard on East Wall", "Westinghouse Gas Engines 500HP each" and " Nurmberg Gas Engine 900HP".
Page 52 : blank page
Page 54 : blank page
Page 55 : blank page
Page 56 : blank page
Page 57 : blank page
Page 60 : blank page
Page 64 : blank page
Page 68 : blank page
Page 70 : blank page
Page 71a : blank page (re-numbered)
Page 75 : blank page
Page 79 : blank page
Page 81 : blank page [top of page has been cut out]
Page 83 : no prints but pencil sketch near bottom of page
Page 85 : blank page [middle section of page has been cut out]
Page 87 : blank page
Page 89 : blank page
Back cover : blank