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Etna Steel Mill (c. 1968)
 

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Shot inside the former Etna steel mill in Motherwell, Lanarkshire, now demolished. A record of the old hand processes of shaping a steel square section bar from the original billet taken from the furnace and thence to the yard where material was stored and transported by magnetic crane.