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China Clay 1948
Description
St Austell, Cornwall.
At the Little Treviscoe Pit we see various shots of a china clay works. Heaps of china clay are piled about the landscape. High pressure water hoses wash the clay down from the pit walls. The liquid clay runs down the cliff, mixing with sand as it goes into a basin. It...
Data
- Cataloguer:
- Sarah
- Stock:
- Black & White
- Sound:
- Sound
- Media URN:
- 34093
- Sort Number:
- NP 178
- Time in/Out:
- 01:19:55:00 / 01:22:02:00
- Canister:
- NP 178
- Film ID:
- 1247.12
- Issue Date:
- 09/02/1948
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- Trade & Industry
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- cornwall Cornwall 1940s and 1950s mining
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