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Amgueddfa Cymru – Museum Wales
Colliery screens in the North Midlands. The sorting of slag from large coal was carried out in the colliery screens on segmented metal plate conveyors. The slag was pulled to the side and disposed of later to the slag heap. The picking staff in this photograph are mostly women.