This is the image that everybody has seen at some time. Taken half-way up the rope incline from the works it shows two rakes of pig iron bogies, one of the company steam tramps and the dock-side cranes. Taken by George Skilbeck, photographically the incline trackway leads the eye into the image and out through the curve of the jetty, which is probably why it has stood the test of time; it has good artistic composition. Unfortunately this image had been ‘cropped’ before receipt to the Archive and continue to hope for an original undamaged image.
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