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Caernarfon Works

Item TitleDescriptionArchive Date
XS/1497/7/1 Workers of J. P. Gregory during renovations to Christ Church, Gaernarfon, early 1900. Back row: 2nd from left J. O. Williams, painter (his son John in front). Front row:2nd from right R. H. Roberts.   
XS/1497/7/2 Caernarfon Cottage Hospital workers - extreme right is Mr. Hugh Hughes, Clerk of Works. Taken near the Victoria Docks Corporation Depot.  1890s
XS/1497/7/3 Alterations to the old prison for adapting to the new County Offices, Caernarfon.  1928-1930
XS/1497/7/4 Munition Works, Vulcan Works, Bank Quay, Caernarfon. Mr. Owen Evans (centre).  1914-1918
XS/1497/7/5 Workers of the Porth yr Aur Ironworks, Caernarfon.  April, 1914
XS/1497/7/6 "Hobblers" (slate loader.) at Caernarfon Quay, c. 1900.

The man on the right was the overseer of the gang. The gang includes, fifth from right, a local character known as John...
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c. 1900
XS/1497/7/7 Workmen painting the old Aber Bridge, Caernarfon. The bridge linked the Slate Quay with the Aber foreshore across the mouth of the river Seiont. It was built in 1900 and demolished in 1969. It was ...  more c. 1920
XS/1497/7/8 Women munition workers at Caernarfon during the first World War. They were producing eighteen-pounder shells.   
XS/1497/7/9 De Winton’s factory workers, Caernarfon, early twentieth century.   

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