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Catalogue Reference:(PRO) INF 10/378/001

The picture shows a worker in a West Indian sugar factory in 1950. The huge rollers which had to be lifted by crane were used to crush the sugar cane in order to extract the liquid for making sugar, molasses and rum.

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