Workers in Bo'ness Docks

Maker
Unknown
Production date
Circa 1930
 Description
A steamship lies alongside the quay. On the quayside are four cranes. Stacks of timber for pit props, about 2 metres long, have been unloaded from the ship. A group of about twenty dockers and a crane driver, pose for the camera.
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Department
Photo
Maker
Production date
Circa 1930
Subject place
Bo'ness Docks/Bo'ness town centre/Bo'ness area
Subject notes
When long wall coal mining replaced the stoop and room method, the roof was kept up by timbers rather than columns of coal. A young cashier in Bo'ness saw the efficiency of importing ready cut timber in various sizes from Russia and Scandinavia. Soon Bo'ness was nicknamed 'Proptown' and smelt of resin.
Accession number
P13707

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