We now arrived at the
Bothwell Oil Museum and got a taste of what the oil industry was like 100
years ago...
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The local expert, Tom Barnes, told us that they used to get
100 barrels a day out of this well
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And here he turns on the machinery to let us
see how things worked
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On the right is John Snake of Delaware Nation
Consulting who gave us a talk
about the museum site.
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And this was why we are paying careful
attention to the talk we got just in case we got put into the stocks :-)
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And this is a small bottle of the very oil
they took out of this well
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And here is sheet about the museum |