P number: | P000066 |
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Old photograph number: | C02892 |
Caption: | Dalmeny Oil Works, Dalmeny. West Lothian. Tip heaps or 'bings' of spent oil-shale. |
Description: | Dalmeny Oil Works, Dalmeny. West Lothian. Tip heaps or 'bings' of spent oil-shale. Typically, each bing would be 30-40 m. high, flat-topped and with steep sides at the natural angle of rest. They are composed of the red burnt mudstone and siltstone fragments which are known locally as 'blaes' or 'red blaes', the waste product of the extraction of oil from the oil-shales. |
Date taken: | Sat Jan 01 00:00:00 GMT 1921 |
Photographer: | Manson, W. |
Copyright statement: | Crown |
Acknowledgment: | This image was digitized with grant-in-aid from SCRAN the Scottish Cultural Resources Access Network |
X longitude/easting: | 314500 |
Y latitude/northing: | 676500 |
Coordinate reference system, ESPG code: | 27700 (OSGB 1936 / British National Grid) |
Orientation: | Landscape |
Size: | 129.50 KB; 1000 x 739 pixels; 85 x 63 mm (print at 300 DPI); 265 x 196 mm (screen at 96 DPI); |
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Categories: | Best of BGS Images/ Images from the archives |
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