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1910 - The shotfirer at work
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1910 - The shotfirer at work
Ashington Colliery, c1910, from an album produced by Ashington Coal Co, 1911. The shotfirer is a man specially appointed by the manager of a mine to place and fire off the shots. He examines the shot hole with a special tool to see that it is free from breeks, pushes in explosive cartridges, in the outermost one of which be has embodied a detonator and fills the hole by ramming.
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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-07668-14-0139 (Beamish) 7191
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