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Vanoord
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15 years ago

It might be a long shot:

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I was wondering if you could help me through your forum.

I have an old photograph from around the 70's or 80's and i would like to know which mine it actually is.

I do not have the photo on my PC but i have done a Watercolour painting of it (attached).

The original photo is in black and white.

Any thoughts?

Hello again darkness, my old friend...

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derrickman
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15 years ago

my first thought is that is so stylized and generic that identification is likely to be quite impossible :blink:

white helmets suggest coal but that's about as far as I would go

''the stopes soared beyond the range of our caplamps' - David Bick...... How times change .... oh, I don't know, I've still got a lamp like that.

moocher
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15 years ago

the cars and van at the back look older than 70's n 80's

Excuse me while my carbon footprint kicks your eco-mentalist backside!

miner1985
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15 years ago

Deep Duffryn colliery, Mountain Ash South Wales. :thumbup:

Here's another photo of it (same angle) :

http://www.welshcoalmines.co.uk/GlamEast/DeepDuffryn.htm

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Vanoord
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15 years ago

"miner1985" wrote:
Deep Duffryn colliery, Mountain Ash South Wales. :thumbup:

Here's another photo of it (same angle) :

http://www.welshcoalmines.co.uk/GlamEast/DeepDuffryn.htm

Excellent!

Looks to be one and the same :thumbsup:

Hello again darkness, my old friend...

Ty Gwyn
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15 years ago

How could you tell?

Was it the good looks of the boy`s

derrickman
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15 years ago

don't agree. You could take a very similar picture at any number of coal mines. There are various details which appear to differ, others have been omitted or have been so altered in the watercolour as to be unidentifiable

difficult to tell on such a heavily tinted and solarised image, but the figures in the forground appear to be wearing white plastic hard hats which would suggest a date not before the late 1960s

''the stopes soared beyond the range of our caplamps' - David Bick...... How times change .... oh, I don't know, I've still got a lamp like that.

Peter Burgess
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15 years ago

"derrickman" wrote:
don't agree. You could take a very similar picture at any number of coal mines. There are various details which appear to differ, others have been omitted or have been so altered in the watercolour as to be unidentifiable

difficult to tell on such a heavily tinted and solarised image, but the figures in the forground appear to be wearing white plastic hard hats which would suggest a date not before the late 1960s

There are loads of colliery photos on this site and elsewhere. You should be able to find another candidate if your theory holds good.

rikj
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15 years ago

Another photo here:

http://cache3.asset-cache.net/xc/3364477.jpg?v=1&c=NewsMaker&k=2&d=45B0EB3381F7834DC8B12BC19A45B804D41CC3C551BDDB7C5223CE6E4BAF89B1

Looks like the miners are walking over a bridge, which has the same angle in all the pics. In this photo though, there are small changes to the top of the headstock.

Closed in 1979.

Ty Gwyn
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15 years ago

#10

If you notice to the right of the Headframe in the photo,you can see the Top of the other Headframe,exactly the same as the one in the Water colour picture and the Link to the Welshcoalmines site shown by Miner85

Vanoord
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15 years ago

#11

Ahhhhhhh, we've got two headframes, haven't we. That explains why it looks a bit odd.

To my eye, the bridge on the right hand side is the giveaway.

Hello again darkness, my old friend...

miner1985
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15 years ago

#12

I remember Deep Duffryn working the pit in question is 100% DD.

JohnnearCfon
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15 years ago

#13

I was trying to work out what that strange object was behind the group of miners. It obviously was part iron, you can see the rivets, but couldn't make out what it could be. It's obviously the side of the bridge!

Paul Parsons
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15 years ago

#14

This looks like it, thanks all. The photograph was in a book i cannot remember, maybe a library book, and it was exactly like my painting, only in black and white. I have a slide of the photo and will attempt to get a digital image to post here.
Paul

Graigfawr
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15 years ago

#15

I believe the photo was published in W.G.Thomas 'Welsh Coal Mines', Cardiff: National Museum of Wales.

miner1985
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15 years ago

#16

Just checked exact same photo on page 28 of the book mentioned above.