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1910 - At the coal face
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1910 - At the coal face
Ashington Colliery, c1910, from an album produced by Ashington Coal Co, 1911. A miner drilling shot holes. He has a portable drill mounted on an adjustable post fixed between roof and floor and carrying an auger which bores holes in the coal about 1 3/4 ins. in diameter and nearly as deep as the slot cut by the coal cutter.
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This photograph is from the People's Collection of photographs held at Beamish Museum and is reproduced by kind permission. |
Image Reference: (DMM) P-07666-14-0139 (Beamish) 7189
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