These fully captioned pictures cover the period from 1986 until British Coal Opencast (BCO) was privatised in 1994.
He includes several walking draglines such as the 4000-ton \'Ace of Spades\'..
There are panoramic shots showing the scale of operations and fine close-ups of individual machines of many kinds at work.
These fully captioned pictures cover the period from 1986 until British Coal Opencast (BCO) was privatised in 1994