Multiple coal miners lamps on belts charging batteries, lamp room in a South Wales pit colliery

Multiple coal miners lamps on belts charging batteries, lamp room in a South Wales pit colliery Stock Photo
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Contributor:

Tony Smith

Image ID:

2JAXT90

File size:

53.2 MB (2.4 MB Compressed download)

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Dimensions:

5100 x 3648 px | 43.2 x 30.9 cm | 17 x 12.2 inches | 300dpi

Date taken:

25 May 2022

Location:

Blaenavon, Torfaen, Wales, UK

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. This scene at Blaenavon, Torfaen, Wales, UK in 2022 forms part of the visual history of the locality, documenting the named subject together with aspects of how the area looked and functioned at the time. The photograph centres on Multiple coal miners lamps on belts charging batteries, lamp room in a South Wales pit colliery. A broader reading of the photograph includes engineering history, changing land use, period streetscape, working-industry history, traditional structure, public realm, industrial artefact, conservation architecture, before-and-after reference, architectural character, former production site, industrial transport, factory heritage, and heavy-industry heritage. Viewed from the mid-2020s, the subject also connects with industrial tourism, labour history and how surviving industrial objects become evidence of vanished working practices. The modern context includes continuing discussion of planning control, redevelopment pressure and keeping older structures useful without erasing their character. Future viewers can use this scene from Blaenavon, Torfaen, Wales, UK to compare local activity and public use with whatever follows after new ownership. The location also brings in manufacturing landscape, built heritage, historic townscape, historical comparison, archival record, local landmark, place identity, and period building. The recorded references to lamps, charging, belts, Multiple, and colliery preserve clues about how the subject was presented, used or understood at the time. For Blaenavon, Torfaen, Wales, UK, the photograph contributes to a cumulative visual history in which changes in use, signs, access and appearance can be traced over time. Its period value extends to industrial tourism and how surviving industrial objects become evidence of vanished working practices without losing the local specificity of Blaenavon, Torfaen, Wales, UK. Image 2JAXT90 also remains a dated record of Blaenavon, Torfaen, Wales, UK.