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Boothstown Mines Rescue Station - training tunnel.

"Photograph shows a team in Boothstown No. 1. Gallery dealing with a live patient on a stretcher in light smoke."
In the 1970s I recorded a series of interviews in the tunnel shown in the photo for BBC Radio Manchester, a WEA sponsored series including Coal-mining. I well recall the intense heat of the tunnel and the smoke-laden atmosphere. KH

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Boothstown Mines Rescue Station - training tunnel.