Drilling Collection

Ainsdale Beach, Merseyside, with Penrod 80 Offshore Drilling Platform in background, 16th July 1992

Miners working at the coal face at the Frances Colliery in Scotland. 2nd March 1983

Drilling the huge mountains of slate in the mine, half a mile under the Berwyn Mountain range, North Wales, in preparation for the explosives

Workman lining the new Mersey Tunnel with glass. This tunnel is probably The Queensway Tunnel, which opened in 1934, and is one of 3 Mersey Tunnels that have opened over time

A workman drilling holes in one of the bedstones on the Gateshead abutment for the bearings of the steel girders of the new Tyne Bridge

Opal mining at Lightning Ridge, New South Wales, Australia. 25th September 1977

A workman on the 6th March 1989 using a pneumatic drill, which can cause the vibration white finger industrial disease

Mr. Edwin Rutherford, 58, is seen using a hand drill in a vertical tunnel 20 feet above the main level of the Coalcleugh Lead Mine, in Allendale, near Hexham, Northumberland in May 1950

Oil well drilling for oil in Ireland. Irish roughnecks enjoy a lunch break beneath the rig. From left John McNanus 18 yrs, (Cavan) Tony McGovern 18 yrs, (Cavan), John McGovern 19 yrs

Noel Whitcomb meets the "roughnecks". July 1963 R5486-002
Noel Whitcomb meets the " roughnecks". July 1963 R5486-002

Oil well drilling for oil in Ireland. Noel Whitcomb pictured with oilman Gordon Bennett. July R5486-003

Oil well drilling for oil in Ireland. A farmhouse on the roadside has a grand stand view of the oil drilling. July 1963 R5486-005

Oil well drilling for oil in Ireland. Tough Gordon Bennett (on left) getting ready for oil drilling. July 1963 R5486 R5486-004

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