Skip to main content

Hwange (inhabited place)

 Subject
Subject Source: Getty Thesaurus of Geographic Names

Found in 1 Collection or Record:

 Item

Wankie [Hwange] Colliery, 1950 - 1967

 Item
Reference Code: GBR/0115/RCS/Y3052G/15
Scope and Contents

Showing by-products coke ovens and the bench on which the coke is water cooled, with railway track and freight trucks for transportation in the centre of the photograph. Part of a tank containing crude tar recovered from the coke oven glasses be seen in the foreground.

Dates: 1950 - 1967
Conditions Governing Access: From the Fonds: Unless restrictions apply, the collection is open for consultation by researchers using the Manuscripts Reading Room at Cambridge University Library. For further details on conditions governing access please contact mss@lib.cam.ac.uk. Information about opening hours and obtaining a Cambridge University Library reader's ticket is available from the Library's website (www.lib.cam.ac.uk).