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Description

The photograph shows the machinery digging out gravel and depositing it into large buckets. The Longburn gravel pit was primarily used for railways ballast. Charles Henry Foley is on the far left.

Identification

Object type
Image
Relation
Public Photograph Collection R 19
Date
circa 1908 to circa 1910
Digitisation ID
2007N_R19_WOR_0120
Held In
Coolstore

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labour,
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