Salt Mine 1948

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Description

Salt mine.

Meadow Bank salt mine, Cheshire.

M/S pit head. L/S exterior of the mine. L/S interior, it is cavernous and dark. M/S moving railway truck. M/S two men with drill, C/U drill boring. M/S as the man stops drilling, another approaches the hole with stick dynamite and a pole....

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Data

Cataloguer:
Emma
Stock:
Black & White
Sound:
Sound
Media URN:
34145
Sort Number:
NP 205
Time in/Out:
01:53:06:00 / 01:56:54:00
Canister:
NP 205
Film ID:
1249.34
Issue Date:
16/08/1948

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