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.
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- Image
- Digitisation ID
- 2007N_R19_WOR_0120
- Title
- Men operating a metal loader at Longburn gravel pit.
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- Coolstore
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Creation
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- Unknown
- Place
- Palmerston North
- Date
- circa 1908 to circa 1910
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- Credit Line
- Palmerston North City Library
- License
- No Known Restrictions
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