tarboat's photos with the keyword: hard life

Spoil from the washery at Yijing is taken a short distance to be tipped on this siding, whence it is removed by a loading shovel As the wagons are tipped the local coal scavengers sift through the material and remove the tiniest bits of coal that are to be found amongst the waste material. The person second from the right is carrying a sack filled with small coal that has been collected here, whilst just off centre adjacent to the tipped wagon can be seen the backs of the pickers who are working fast before the loading shovel returns.