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Collapse CP48 - Photographs: Centre for Environment, Fisheries & Aquaculture Science, Conwy.CP48 - Photographs: Centre for Environment, Fisheries & Aquaculture Science, Conwy.
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1 - View from above the Conwy tanks
2 - The engine room
3 - Middle tank after draining off water...
4 - No 1 tank after draining water...
5 - No 2 tank after draining off water...
6 - Portion of 1918 slate
7 - Interior of temporary shelter near no 2 tank, showing workers wiring and liming tiles. [2/21]
8 - Tanks during placing of tiles. [3/21]
9 - Placing tiles in middle tank; Hatton, Lloyd, Clayton and Lees in picture. [4/21]
10 - Stacks of tiles maturing and other tiles in position in tank no 2. [6/21]
11 - Excavation in progress for lower oyster culture tank. Dr Dodgson with the contractor. [7/21]
12 - Excavation of oyster tanks nearly completed, concrete has been laid on the floor of the lower tank. [8/21]
13 - Middle tank during emptying, bouquets are visible in the tank. [9/21]
14 - Middle tank showing bouquets, the tank is nearly empty. [9A/21]
15 - Construction of the oyster tanks showing the reinforcement of a tank wall. [10/21]
16 - Group of workers on oyster tank construction showing reinforcement of the tank wall. [10A/21]
17 - Old pump and pipes, replaced by a new pump shown on the right. [11/21]
18 - Landing mussels on the shore, view looking towards Conwy Castle and bridge. [17/21]
19 - Landing mussels on the shore, view looking towards the southeast. [18/21]
20 - Lloyd in no 2 tank, the tank is empty apart from bricks at fairly regular intervals. [19/21]
21 - Oyster tiles stacked for the winter after the 1921 experiment. [20/21]
22 - No 1 and no 2 tanks, showing collectors in place. [16/22]
23 - Tile collectors [bouquets] in position in no 2 tank. [17/22]
24 - General view of tanks at Benarth Road site, taken from Conwy Castle. [6/23]
25 - 1924 Culture experiment, showing turbine, pump and channel through which nearly 10,000 gallons per hour was pumped from one corner of the chlorinating tank to the opposite corner for two months. [12/24]
26 - Middle tank showing channel, spillway and 'cascade'. [13/24]
27 - Tank E showing disturbance of water made by air escaping up drain pipes which were placed over the filter candles. [14/24]
28 - Trough showing 'cascade' and top of tower filled with tiles. [15/24]
29 - Air blower worked by the town water supply, for aeration of tank E through five filter candles placed on the tank floor. [16/24]
30 - Entrance to the tanks. [17/24]
31 - Mussels in tank showing penstock wall. [8/26]
32 - Mussels in tank showing penstock wall. [9/26]
33 - Tank containing mussels and showing penstocks [flushing]. [10/26]
34 - Cover over E tank to control photosynthesis and prevent excessive alkalinity of the water. [13/26]
35 - Map of Conwy showing the mussel beds and the relation of the sewers thereto. [2/31]
36 - The Menai Straits. [8/32]
37 - The Menai Straits. [9/32]
38 - Laboratory and office, Castle Bank, Conwy. [13/32]
39 - Lead seals for the mussel bags. [6A/33]
40 - Copy of Hammond's "Tanks from Castle", a general view. [14/1933]
41 - Landing mussels at Conwy. [15/1933]
42 - Men loading bags of mussels onto a horse-drawn cart. [17/1933]
43 - Hosing down mussels spread on the floor of a tank. [18/1933]
44 - Sealing bags of mussels. [18/1933]
45 - Bagging mussels at the purification tanks. [19/1933]
46 - Mussel-men spreading mussels over the floor of a purification tank. [20/1933]
47 - Pen-stocking in tank B. [22/33]
48 - Pen-stocking in tank B. [23/33]
49 - Oyster cages at the Menai Straits, viewed from the [shore]. [? 7/37]
50 - Conwy treatment tanks full during treatment process. [11/38]
51 - Oyster cages at the Menai Straits. [38]
52 - Mussel beds showing young mussels (with coin as size indicator). [1940]
53 - Mussel beds showing young mussels. [1940]
54 - Mussel beds viewed from Conwy Mountain at 7pm. [40]
55 - Rolling machine and tank. [47]
56 - Castle Bank backyard. [1951]
57 - Castle Bank backyard. [1952]
58 - Scientific assistants at Castle Bank. [1953]
59 - P.R.W. apparatus. [No reference number]
60 - Lady seated at desk. [No reference number]
61 - Conwy Mussel Fishery output diagram, showing output of mussels (in tons) for each season from 1910 to 1944. [No reference number]
62 - Goodchild's model of an oyster culture tank at Tal-y-Foel. [No reference number]
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3 - ALBUM
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Expand 5 - BUNDLES of Loose Photographs by Subject5 - BUNDLES of Loose Photographs by Subject
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7 - BOX of Prints
8 - BOX of Slides, Negatives, Contact Prints and Film
9 - SERIES of three albums
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