IMAGE
Coal miners taking a break, Stockton, Buller district
- Date
- 3 Oct 1944
- Reference
- 1/4-001227-F
- Description
Coal miners having 'crib' (snack) time in a wet mine, Stockton, Buller district, 3 October, 1944. One eats a sandwich. The man on the right holds a bottle of cold tea. Photograph taken by John Pascoe.
Other - Pascoe's heading from the backfile for the set of photographs at 1/4-001221 to 001261 reads: "Coal from the Buller mines".
Researcher has suggested the mine is Webb Mine and the men may be (left to right) Jim Wilson, shot firer; Alfie Dawes (eating a sandwich) and Harry Betteley or Ollie Henderson.
Caption - Caption at backfile reads: " Crib time in a wet mine. 'Crib' is a miner's term for a snack. Typical of crib are the sandwich (centre) and the bottle of cold tea (right).
Source of descriptive information - File print and Pascoe's notes in backfile held in Photographic Archive.
Quantity: 1 b&w original negative(s).
Physical Description: Film negative
- Access restrictions
- Partly restricted - Please use surrogate in place of original
- Part of
- Pascoe, John Dobree, 1908-1972 :Photographic albums, prints and negatives
- Format
- 1 b&w original negative(s), Negatives, Group portraits, Film negative
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