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Brick Collection PN 10

Brick collection from quarries and mines in Cumbria from 1850 video

Brick collection from quarries and mines in Cumbria from 1850 The buildings for Cumbria’s industry were built with bricks without which Cumbria’s mineral wealth would

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Bricks of Cumbria

Brick collection from quarries and mines in Cumbria from 1850 This collection of bricks varies from the hand made with finger marks, to engineered bricks

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Broughton Moor WW2 Munitions Building Explosion Label

Explosion at Broughton Moor Munitions Dump in wartime Photo Gallery

Explosion at Broughton Moor Munitions Dump in wartime Explosion at Munitions Factory!Explosion at Broughton Moor amunition works in WW2Oral history mini filmExplosive chemicalsThe danger of

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Broughton Moor WW2 Munitions Building Emergency Sign

Explosion at Broughton Moor munitions dump Video

Explosion at Broughton Moor Munitions Dump video Oral history by Cockermouth lady about her mother working at the munitions factory at the Royal Navy Armaments Depot,

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Miner At Work

Mines Quarries Iron Steel Photo Gallery

Mines Quarries Iron Steel Gallery Extraction of Cumbrian mineral resources, and industry for extraction and processing. Clifton Pit Miner Clogs On Miners 1900 4 P16

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Miners Picking At Mine

Mining and Minerals in Cumbria video

Mining and Minerals in Cumbria video Cumbria’s geology and mineral wealth has attracted mining for centuries and the landscape of the Lake District gives clues

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Bessemer Converter Science Museum

Sir Henry Bessemer a Tribute for Steel & Rail at Workington Cumbria Video

Workington Steel & Rail from Bessemer’s Convertor Sir Henry Bessemer A Tribute to the Inventor Sir Henry Bessemer was a prolific inventor born in 1813. 

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Steam navvy renovated Ray Hooley

Steam Digger Excavator working at Threlkeld Quarry video

Steam Digger excavator Hooley working at Threlkeld Quarry Video of steam digger working at Threlkeld Quarry Ray Hooley organised volunteers to recover it from the

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Steam navvy from the deep boom emerging

Steam Digger From The Deep video

Steam Digger working at Threlkeld Quarry Cumbria video Video of steam digger working at Threlkeld Quarry Ray Hooley organised volunteers to recover it from the

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Iron And Steel Works Workington 00

Steel Making by Bessemer Convertor at Workington Cumbria video

Steel Making by Bessemer Convertor at Workington Cumbria Sir Henry Bessemer created a new process for making steel and his earliest Bessemser Converters were sited

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Steel Works Aerial View

Steel Works rail rolling line in Workington video

Steel Works rail rolling line in Workington video Workington produced steel for 125 years culminating in Corus creating annually enough rail to run from Workington

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Sir Tom loco train and the excavators Threlkeld Quarry

Threlkeld Quarry steam train and excavators Photo Gallery

Threlkeld Quarry and Mining Museum and Vintage Excavator Trust Before the days of hydraulic excavators (leaky incontinent things!) rope excavators were the ingenious and robust

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Excavators Threlkeld Quarry Blencathra behind

Vintage Excavators at Threlkeld Quarry Cumbria video

Vintage Excavators at Threlkeld Quarry Cumbria video Before the days of hydraulic excavators (leaky incontinent things!) rope excavators were the ingenious and robust diggers, lifters

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