Picture No | 12917195 |
Date | 1959 |
Description | Oil in Dorset |
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The drilling rig of the Broadbench no. 1 on the edge of the cliffs near Kimmeridge in Dorset. Oil had been found there by the B.P. Exploration Company about 1800 ft in limestone.
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Source | Unattributed photograph in The Sphere, 11 April 1959 |
Credit | © Illustrated London News Ltd/Mary Evans |
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