coal

Industrial Visions:Bernd and Hilla Becher

in Miners, Exhibition, coal

Bernd and Hilla Becher: Industrial Visions, at the Museum of Wales’ main site in Cathays, Cardiff is an absolute treat and quite inspirational, for those interested in industrial heritage and photography. The exhibition, co-curated by Russell Roberts, brings together 225 photographs of fast disappearing industrial buildings and appendages; winding wheels, […]

Idris Phillips’ Portrait at National Coal Mining Museum

in Miners, Exhibition, Photogrammetry, coal, ffotogallery, The Coal Face, 3-d portrait, The National Coal Mining Museum

A print of Idris Phillips’ 3-d portrait is featured at The National Coal Mining Museum‘s exhibition about African Caribbean miners contribution to coal mining in the U.K. . The National Coal Mining Museum in Wakefield recently opened an exhibition “Digging Deep: Miners of African Caribbean Heritage” by the Nottingham New […]

R.I.P. – Owen Tucker – The Face of “The Coal Face”

in Miners, Exhibition, Film, Photogrammetry, coal

Today was a sad day. Owen a friend and inspiration was buried in Six Bells. Owen was a miner, for 35 years. For his entire life he lived in the terraced house where he had been born 84 years earlier. Owen Tucker was deeply honest, generous and spoke his mind, […]

Screening of “Black Gold” Edwardsville, Treharris

in Uncategorised, Community Group, Community Interest Company, School, Education, Audio Visual Education, Miners, Exhibition, coal, Heritage Lottery Fund, Cyfarthfa Castle Museum, Community Workshop

Vision Fountain and Cyfarthfa Castle Museum & Art Gallery had a very full screening of the HLF funded project “Merthyr’s Black Gold” today. We had the entire primary school of over 200 children attending the first screening. The second screening was attended by around 25 relatives and parents and about […]

Working with Cyfarthfa Castle Museum & The Heritage Lottery Fund

in Miners, coal, workshop, Heritage Lottery Fund, Cyfarthfa Castle Museum, Community Workshop

Vision Fountain have started a project about Merthyr’s Coal Heritage called “Merthyr’s Black Gold” with project partners Cyfarthfa Castle Museum and the Heritage Lottry fund. Four primary schools and two scout troops in the area will be actively involved in the project. We will be teaching the young learners how […]

Walesonline and Wales on Sunday feature Winding House project

in Uncategorised, Elliot Colliery, The Winding House Museum, Miners, Exhibition, coal

Wales online and Wales On Sunday featured our project with the Winding House Museum commemorating 50 years since the closure of Elliot Colliery http://www.walesonline.co.uk/news/wales-news/rats-cockroaches-characters-friends-crushed-13824915 All quotes from the article are taken from the interviews we conducted with the ex-miners: Rats, cockroaches, characters, and friends crushed to death – the extraordinary […]