waw000866 WALES (1946) [Unlocated]. View labelled "South Wales Electric D". The whereabouts of this site is presently unknown.

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Details

Title [WAW000866] View labelled "South Wales Electric D". The whereabouts of this site is presently unknown.
Reference WAW000866
Date 1946
Link Coflein Archive Item 6413175
Place name
Parish
District
Country WALES
Easting / Northing 0, 0
Longitude / Latitude -7.556448482059, 49.766185796754
National Grid Reference SV000000

Pins

I wonder why it is camouflaged? Could this be a clue to its whereabouts?

dyey
Sunday 16th of September 2018 06:55:54 PM
This view is looking approx. NNE.

Swordfish
Thursday 9th of October 2014 05:28:40 PM

Swordfish
Thursday 9th of October 2014 05:27:00 PM
Electricity transmission station

Swordfish
Thursday 9th of October 2014 05:26:16 PM
River - Great Ouse

Swordfish
Thursday 9th of October 2014 05:25:03 PM

Swordfish
Thursday 9th of October 2014 05:24:04 PM

Swordfish
Thursday 9th of October 2014 05:23:35 PM
Coal stockyard

Swordfish
Thursday 9th of October 2014 05:22:58 PM
site of deserted medieval village of Little Barford

Dylan Moore
Thursday 1st of May 2014 11:23:47 AM
Little Barford Village

Dylan Moore
Thursday 1st of May 2014 10:45:19 AM

User Comment Contributions

This is fascinating, and, I think, very important. I was very familiar with this site in my youth. In attempting to understand the mass psychology of the BFA site, it would be very interesting to know how - as a narrative - this picture came to be labelled "South Wales Electric D". Maybe it was constructed by the South Wales Electric Power Company. Probably not. I haven't been able to find out who actually built it - strange how useless the internet is when you try to find out something like this. I suppose I could make a wild guess at what pre-nationalisation company built it, but I just DON'T KNOW, so I won't. And yet someone thought they knew (or thought it didn't matter). The trubble is, the internet is now the main source of what people take to be objective truth. So until (if ever) the title of this image gets changed, this power station is, in fact, SOUTH WALES ELECTRIC D, and it's true, 'cos it's on the net.

Dylan Moore
Sunday 4th of May 2014 10:04:30 PM
Hi Dylan,



This image illustrates one of the problems that archivists often encounter. In fact, it's the perfect case-study for the management of archival flowlines in complex, multi-partner projects.



The original Aerofilms Ltd Register entry for negative A866 reads "South Wales Electric D". We’ve no idea why the person at the company wrote this: perhaps it was to do with the commissioner who ordered the photography; or the staff member just filled in the wrong line in the ledger. “D” usually stands for ‘destroyed’, but clearly this negative still survives.



We always knew there would be location problems to resolve; for example, because of Aerofilms Ltd's poor record-keeping - but that problem-solving wouldn't be possible until a positive image could be studied. This can only happen once the digital surrogate from the conserved negative is passed to the Cataloguers, months down the line.



The item was scheduled as "Wales", the Conservation and Digitisation Teams did their stuff and the digital surrogate, along with the Register data, was looked at by the RCAHMW cataloguer. As the image couldn’t be located anywhere in Wales, it sits with RCAHMW and goes onto the BfA website in the Unlocated gallery until such time as it is identified.



With the correct location we can now start the process of un-picking Aerofilms Ltd’s error.



If you would be interested to learn more about the Conservation, Digitisation or Cataloguing processes just drop us a line via the Enquiries Form on the “contact us” page.



Yours, Katy

Britain from Above Cataloguing Team Leader

Katy Whitaker
Thursday 1st of May 2014 12:48:46 PM
Not South Wales at all, but Little Barford Power Station in Bedfordshire. Compare with EAW000877.

Tony D
Wednesday 30th of April 2014 09:30:32 PM