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Horden Collieries Ltd. Screens - Blackhall (blac0028)

George Connell and Friends Beside Pieronis Car
Blackhall Lodge, Durham Miners Gala

Photograph of the screens at Blackhall Colliery, run by Horden Collieries Ltd., showing the interior of a large building with a roof of cast-iron girders, from which lights are suspended; below the lights, six conveyor belts, running the length of the building, can be seen; between each conveyor belt are a line of coal trucks and at each conveyor belt are eight men inspecting the pieces of coal which cover each conveyor belt

Horden Collieries Ltd. Screens - Blackhall

Photograph of the screens at Blackhall Colliery, run by Horden Collieries Ltd., showing the interior of a large building with a roof of cast-iron girders, from which lights are suspended; below the lights, six conveyor belts, running the length of the building, can be seen; between each conveyor belt are a line of coal trucks and at each conveyor belt are eight men inspecting the pieces of coal which cover each conveyor belt

Date: 1930 - 1939

I dont think they were coal trucks between the conveyors, but storage boxes which would empty into waggons below the screens.

Comment added by Ken Mounter on 05/01/2009 15:10:00

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