Butetown History and Arts Centre: Photographic Collection

IDENTITY STATEMENT AREA

Reference code(s): BHAC/Photographic Collection

Title: Butetown History and Arts Centre: Photographic Collection

Date(s): c.1900 - present

Level of description: Fonds

Extent and medium of the unit of description: c.3000 photographs

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Name of creator(s): Glenn Jordan (Director, Butetown History and Arts Centre)

Administrative/Biographical history: Butetown History and Arts Centre was established in 1987 as a centre for the collection and preservation of resources documenting the social history of the communities in Cardiff's docklands (also referred to as 'Tiger Bay' and 'The Docks').

Funded by the Glamorgan County Council, the Arts Council for Wales, the Heritage Lottery Fund, Home Office 'Connecting Communities' funding and a grant from the EU the centre is currently involved in a range of community outreach activities, educational projects, local history research initiatives and arts exhibitions (mainly photography) geared towards raising awareness about Cardiff's multicultural history and heritage and preserving the history of Butetown's diverse communities for posterity.

The BHAC Photographic archive has grown from community interest and activity over more than a decade. Informal family snaps, proud photos of home and jobs, formal studio portraits and images of celebrated personalities, before fame claimed them, have all been donated to the Centre. On this foundation, the collection has expanded with material from local industries, shipping firms and companies that made their fortunes in Butetown and the Docks. All these images provide a kaleidoscope of a time when Cardiff Bay was known the world over as Tiger Bay.

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Scope and content: The photographic collection comprises images of Butetown and the Butetown community. The images include family portraits, street, and dockside scenes, and domestic and work interiors, and pictures of special occasions, sport, leisure, and social groups. Subjects /areas captured in image include Loudoun's Square and the Seamen's Lodge. Collection includes photographs taken by Clement Cooper as a part a project to trace and capture on print images of people of 'mixed race' or dual heritage. This was a commissioned project where images were taken in Liverpool, Bristol, as well as Tiger Bay between 1994 - 1995.

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Conditions governing access: Access to the archive is at the discretion of the director of Butetown History and Arts Centre. In the first instance, please write to: Glenn Jordan (Director), Butetown History and Arts Centre, 5 Dock Chambers, Bute Street, Cardiff CF10 5AG.

Conditions governing reproduction: © Butetown History and Arts Centre

Language/scripts of material: English

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DESCRIPTION CONTROL AREA

Recorder's note: Record completed and indexed June 2002. MR.

Rules or conventions: Compiled in compliance with General International Standard Archival Description, ISAD(G), second edition, 2000; National Council on Archives Rules for the Construction of Personal, Place and Corporate Names, 1997.

Date(s) of descriptions: 20 January 2002

Interest: Asian, Black

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Cultural heritage

Intercultural education

Multiple heritage peoples

Social history

Migration

Interethnic relations

Trade

Maritime transport

Photographs

Ethnic groups

Communities

Personal/Corporate names

Jordan, Glenn

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Bristol, United Kingdom

Liverpool, United Kingdom

Butetown, Cardiff, United Kingdom