Photo - Four Men on Hay

code: LVSAV1998.041.009

Collection code:
LVSAV1998.041
File type:
Photographs
Collection:

Description

Black and white photograph of four men sitting on a pile of hay

1 of 14 black and white photographs from the 1950s taken in forests then owned by West Lothian water board, of the propping squad (Scottish Oils), employees (water board) and students.

Scottish Oils Ltd managed softwood plantations owned by the Water Board at Beecraigs, in the Bathgate Hills. Timber was cut by the Scottish Oils propping squad to produce pit props for the shale mines

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Photo - Young Men Building a Fire, Beecraigs LVSAV1998.041 .004
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Photo - Young Man on Horseback LVSAV1998.041 .006
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Photo - Forestry workers in Woodland, Beecraigs LVSAV1998.041 .012
Photo - Forestry workers joking with an Axe LVSAV1998.041 .013
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