Conoco Rig: making a connection. Photographer: Godwin, Fay
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Inscription: Inscribed on verso: '2370-3-32 /5 3 9'. Genre: Industrial Photography Four men, wearing overalls and hardhats, stand on the drilling floor and ease a vertical shaft into the ground. Published on page 46 of ‘The Oil Rush’ (London: Quartet Books, 1976).
Conoco rig: Making a connection. Photographer: Godwin, Fay
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Inscription: Inscribed on verso: '2370-5-38' [copyright stamp]. Genre: Industrial Photography Four men, all wearing overalls and hardhats, stand on the drilling floor: one man holds onto the vertical shaft, a second man has his back to the camera and is pulling a winch, whilst the remaining tw...
Sandy from Oban: Oil rig worker. Photographer: Godwin, Fay
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Inscription: Inscribed on verso: 'Oil rig worker / 375 /2378-1-30 / 50' [copyright stamp]. Genre: Portrait Photography A man wearing a thick cardigan sits and looks at the camera; he has a cigarette in one hand and plays with a box of matches in the other. A second man sits nearby but is turne...
Cargo is 'snatched' onto platform from supply boat, which is not tied up. Photographer: Godwin, Fay
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Inscription: Inscribed on verso: '54 / 2437(a)3 / 30 / 840 / 2 off / split / MP 18/1/80[copyright stamp]. Genre: Industrial Photography View taken on the supply boat, looking down on the deck with large crates and three men in the process of attaching one of them to pulley; the rig is to the l...
Supply boat tied up to derrick barge. Photographer: Godwin, Fay
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Inscription: Inscribed on verso: '54 / 2437(a)3 / 30 / 840 / 2 off / split / MP 18/1/80[copyright stamp]. Genre: Industrial Photography Riggers place a wooden plank to connect the supply boat to the area containing large machinery and debris. Cropped version published on page 58 of ‘The Oil Ru...
Supply boat tied up to derrick barge - here a man was just starting to cross when the wooden plank shattered. Photographer: Godwin, Fay
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Inscription: Inscribed on verso: '56 / 2408-4-29 / This portion only [with crop lines] / 32 / Forties Field supply boat tied up to derrick barge - here a man was just starting to cross when the wooden plank shattered / E855 / 1170' [copyright stamp]. Genre: Industrial Photography Riggers try a...
Supply boat unloading in the Forties Field. Photographer: Godwin, Fay
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Inscription: Inscribed on verso: '2422-4-29'. Genre: Industrial Photography The deck of a supply boat, four men are on the top of a large crate securing it to a hoist. Cropped version published on page 60 of ‘The Oil Rush’ (London: Quartet Books, 1976).
BP Forties Field: [steel production platform in early stage of completion]. Photographer: Godwin, Fay
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Genre: Industrial Photography Steel rods emerge from the sea; the platform has yet to be installed. Published on page 82/3 of ‘The Oil Rush’ (London: Quartet Books, 1976).
BP Forties Field: [steel production platform in early stage of completion]. Photographer: Godwin, Fay
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Genre: Industrial Photography Steel rods emerge from the sea; the platform has yet to be installed. Published on page 82/3 of ‘The Oil Rush’ (London: Quartet Books, 1976).
Hamilton Transworld 58 semi-submersible rig. Photographer: Godwin, Fay
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Inscription: Inscribed on verso: '2437a.8 / 4 / 4 / 10 / 10'. Genre: Industrial Photography Photograph taken from the air, the view looks down on the oil rig, which is in the foreground; the calm sea stretches to the skyline. Published on pages 86/7 of ‘The Oil Rush’ (London: Quartet Books, 19...