Shepherd Wheel
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Shepherd Wheel
Image: © Chris Allen Taken: 11 Dec 1993
Water powered grinding mill for sharpening edge tools. The operative would lie prone over the wheel. What with pneumoconiosis and the risk of exploding grind stones their lives could be neither long nor cheerful.
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Image Location
Latitude
53.363537
Longitude
-1.524959