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Llanerch Colliery, photograph
Black and white photograph showing Herbert Saunders (bowler hatted) with the Billie Clock at Llanerch Colliery pithead.
The "Billie Clock" or "Billie Chwarae Teg" was a large weighing scale where the amount of small coal in a tram could be recorded so that a collier could be paid the correct amount. A weigher, employed by the company, and a checker, on behalf of the colliers, also kept a record.
Collection Area
Industry
Item Number
69.37/11
Acquisition
Purchase, 30/1/1969
Measurements
Length
(mm): 167
Width
(mm): 183
Techniques
black and white (monochrome photograph)
photograph
Material
paper
Location
In store
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