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The Men

Item Title	Description	Archive Date
XS/1072/183	A group of quarrymen preparing gelignite for a blast.
XS/1072/184	Two quarrymen ramming home the explosive.
XS/1072/185	Two quarrymen preparing to ram home the explosives.
XS/1072/186	A quarryman setting fire to the fuse.
XS/1072/187	A quarryman beside his rock drill drilling a hole at Marchlyn.
XS/1072/188	A quarryman with his rock drill while below loaders heap the slate in trucks.
XS/1072/189	Two quarrymen splitting huge slate blocks at the Quarry.
XS/1072/190	Two quarrymen at work splitting slate blocks.
XS/1072/191	Two quarrymen splitting slate blocks, with a pile of split slabs ready for loading.
XS/1072/192	Two quarrymen piling up the slate slabs ready for loading with machines working behind them at one of the galleries of Dinorwic Quarries.

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