Image ID: 09895

Quarrying for Gypsum at Cafferata's, Hawton, Nr Newark, 1930s

Courtesy of British Gypsum

Bowbridge Lane
Hawton
England

Steam shovels in use at Messrs. Cafferata's quarry at Hawton. Locomotive ('Hilda') in foreground with wagon full of gypsum, a steam shovel is loading spoil onto a conveyor which dumps it on the left side of the quarry forming a spoil heapt. Gypsum being mined from quarry face on in background.

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