Janine Wiedel - 70's industrial photos

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Worth a read.

Heavy metal: how Janine Wiedel captured the filth and glory of Britain’s industrial 70s

The photographer travelled the West Midlands in a campervan to document the workers risking their lives to toil in steel mills, coal mines and blast furnaces

www.theguardian.com

All the photos are here:

https://archive.wiedel-photo-library.com/gallery-collection/C0000QkcABpNr9g8

I've now accessed the Kickstarter (had to sign in). Prices start at £40 plus £5 p&p. Undecided on whether to pledge.

 

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I was working measuring dust levels in potteries in Stoke at the time these were taken. Interesting to see quite a few of the staff in the pictures wearing the Ceramic Finish Terylene overalls that my father invented and designed to reduce their exposure to dust that would give them silicosis.