WORLD'S FIRST COAL BORING TOWER - ONE OF THE ACHIEVEMENTS OF TUBEWRIGHTS LTD., the

Workers defy gravity as they piece together the tubes and girders of a coal boring tower at St. David’s Harbour, Fife.

1955 | bw | sound

From this week's theme: Coal

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