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Backbarrow, Blue Works, Saggers being loaded with mixings

"Saggers being loaded with 'mixings' and then stacked in the kiln. The new ingredients of sulphur, soda, and clay are mixed together and crushed in one of the two elecrrically operated dry-grinding drums, the crushing agents in the drums are pebbles. From the drums the mixing i dropped into underground conveyors and then on to a storage hopper and then via the small wheeled-wagon, as shown, to the kiln." Men in photo are: Left to right - Peter Kerr (Haverthwaite, Graham Heasley (in Kiln. Millom, Harold Barker (Backbarrow) Jim Ocker (Flookburgh), Raymond Barker (Backbarrow) and Terry Hartley (Backbarrow).
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Backbarrow, Blue Works, Saggers being loaded with mixings