| P number: | P001449 |
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| Old photograph number: | C03576 |
| Caption: | Brickworks Quarry, near Sanquhar Railway Station, Dumfriesshire. Carboniferous Coal Measures shales overlain by glacial deposits and intercalated peat bed (the dark band below the boulder clay). |
| Description: | Brickworks Quarry, near Sanquhar Railway Station, Dumfriesshire. Carboniferous Coal Measures shales overlain by glacial deposits and intercalated peat bed (the dark band below the boulder clay). The view shows the working face of the quarry with narrow gauge railway tracks leading up to it. Three quarrymen pose for the camera, two sitting on a small bogie. The picks and shovels indicate the lack of mechanization, typical of the period. The calmy shales overlying the Calmstone Coals were especially sought after as a material for brickmaking but shales and fireclays were also worked at the extensive workings at Sanquhar Brickworks. |
| Date taken: | Fri Jan 01 00:00:00 GMT 1937 |
| Photographer: | Fisher, W.D. |
| Copyright statement: | Crown |
| Acknowledgment: | This image was digitized with grant-in-aid from SCRAN the Scottish Cultural Resources Access Network |
| X longitude/easting: | 278500 |
| Y latitude/northing: | 610500 |
| Coordinate reference system, ESPG code: | 27700 (OSGB 1936 / British National Grid) |
| Orientation: | Landscape |
| Size: | 352.12 KB; 1001 x 741 pixels; 85 x 63 mm (print at 300 DPI); 265 x 196 mm (screen at 96 DPI); |
| Average Rating: | Not yet rated |
| Categories: | Unsorted Images |
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