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The shot hole driller looks like a modern Hercules in modern industry
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The shot hole driller looks like a modern Hercules in modern industry
The shot hole driller looks like a modern Hercules in modern industry, Daily Mirror Published Picture Wednesday 15th May 1935, Pages 16 & 17.
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The shot hole driller, a true Hercule; of modern industry. This fine study was made far below the surface at the Astley Green Collieries of the Manchester Collieries, Ltd. where the second of our series of pictures illustrating the other mans job should the work of the men in Britains coal mines, vital source of the nations wealth and might, Upon this countrys rich coal deposits are founded our great engineering industries. Coal drives our ships, smelts, our iron ore, gives us gas and electricity for lighting and heating, yields a host of useful by-products and provides one of our most valuable exports. No wonder that the miners strenuous labours, often carried on at great peril, place them in the front rank of Britains workers. Their total output of coal last year was 213, 760, 556 tons
Peter Pitt
Daily Mirror
Mirrorpix
England
Media ID 21732038
© Mirrorpix
1935 Individuals Miner Miners Mining Occupations One Mid Adult Man Only Underground Scenes
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