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Galleries: John Cornwell
10 January 2012[image: John Cornwell Photographs]
John Cornwell was a freelance photographer who took many photographs of collieries, both underground and on the surface, during the 1970s and early 1980s. He perfected a method of underground photography using the standard colliery lighting and was able to photograph coal faces, roadways, shafts and equipment with amazing clarity.
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10 February 2010[image: Oakdale Institure]
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10 April 2009[image: Welsh Castle]
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Articles: Laying foundations: Workmen's Institutes
10 February 2010[image: Oakdale Institure]
Workmen's Institutes were built in the industrialized townships of south and north-east Wales between the 1880s and the 1930sArticles: Castle Studies in Wales (and beyond)
10 April 2009[image: Welsh Castle]
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Galleries
Galleries: John Cornwell
10 January 2012[image: John Cornwell Photographs]
John Cornwell was a freelance photographer who took many photographs of collieries, both underground and on the surface, during the 1970s and early 1980s. He perfected a method of underground photography using the standard colliery lighting and was able to photograph coal faces, roadways, shafts and equipment with amazing clarity.