Harnessing a natural resource
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Harnessing a natural resource
Image: © Des Colhoun Taken: 3 Jun 2012
There's something of "toys for the boys" in the construction and layout of early mills, factories, and hydro schemes etc. You could be forgiven for thinking that the nation had "something going for it" in those days.
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Image Location
Latitude
56.712004
Longitude
-4.95763