Additional illustrations to Horsepower
1/ Les décharseurs de Charbon, Claude Monet, 1875, displayed in the Orsay Museum Paris
Until the 20th century, loading and unloading barges was very labor intensive. A 300-ton coal barge might take one week to unload.
2/ A Warrington coal hole
3/ Coal being delivered into a coal cellar
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