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Forum: Warkworth and Birling 04-01-2018, 11:17 AM

Replies: 33 Butts at Warkworth Views: 29,620 Posted By Coquet On our new year's day walk up there we went as... On our new year's day walk up there we went as far as the beach and returned via the footpath in the field to the south side of the road. I did notice the soil in there is unusually dark and there...

Forum: Warkworth and Birling 03-01-2018, 09:10 PM

Replies: 33 Butts at Warkworth Views: 29,620 Posted By Coquet The mention of coal exports in 1567 also ties in... The mention of coal exports in 1567 also ties in nicely with the reference (elsewhere) to the potential construction of a coal exporting port on the Coquet in Elizabethan times. (scuppered due to...

Forum: Warkworth and Birling 03-01-2018, 09:05 PM

Replies: 33 Butts at Warkworth Views: 29,620 Posted By Coquet We did mention some of this 2013: ... We did mention some of this 2013: http://www.coquetandcoast.co.uk/amble-northumberland/showthread.php?t=262&highlight=warkworth+town&page=3 On the subject of the Warkworth fishing village,...

Forum: Warkworth and Birling 03-01-2018, 08:14 PM

Replies: 33 Butts at Warkworth Views: 29,620 Posted By Coquet I wonder why it has become a site of Antiquity on... I wonder why it has become a site of Antiquity on a par with the others mentioned above if it was just the Hangman's personal patch of land? The Victorian map makers don't even bother to include the...

Forum: Warkworth and Birling 03-01-2018, 08:10 PM

Replies: 33 Butts at Warkworth Views: 29,620 Posted By Coquet That explains it then. That looks like my... That explains it then. That looks like my colouring in? have we been here before? :D I was just about to say we have the immediate post medieval duke's map on here somewhere!

Forum: Warkworth and Birling 03-01-2018, 08:05 PM

Replies: 33 Butts at Warkworth Views: 29,620 Posted By Coquet This is Hodgson's photo of the other end of the... This is Hodgson's photo of the other end of the Butts, with the new houses in front/east of the castle still many decades away, and no builder's yard. [nearly got a full set of images, should...

Forum: Warkworth and Birling 03-01-2018, 07:49 PM

Replies: 33 Butts at Warkworth Views: 29,620 Posted By Coquet Hodgson does briefly mention Hangman's acre. ... Hodgson does briefly mention Hangman's acre. There is and old close called the 'Tenterheugh' at the west end of the New-town. Most of it is now devoted to the new burial ground or extension of the...

Forum: Warkworth and Birling 03-01-2018, 07:35 PM

Replies: 33 Butts at Warkworth Views: 29,620 Posted By Coquet Hodgson's image of the bridge is a nice one, shot... Hodgson's image of the bridge is a nice one, shot from the north side of the river as well: http://www.coquetandcoast.co.uk/images/warkworth-bridge-18.jpg

Forum: Warkworth and Birling 03-01-2018, 04:56 PM

Replies: 33 Butts at Warkworth Views: 29,620 Posted By Coquet nice. :) nice. :)

Forum: Warkworth and Birling 03-01-2018, 12:43 PM

Replies: 33 Butts at Warkworth Views: 29,620 Posted By Coquet I can't find any reference to it in Hodgson's. ... I can't find any reference to it in Hodgson's. On the 1897 map the marked antiquities for Warkworth are: Moat Keep Castle Chantry (site of) Bridge Tower (at bridge) Hangman's Acre

Forum: Warkworth and Birling 01-01-2018, 08:20 PM

Replies: 33 Butts at Warkworth Views: 29,620 Posted By Coquet Any whoo.. after taking those photos today I spun... Any whoo.. after taking those photos today I spun around 180° and photographed the field opposite, telling the daughter 'this is the Warkworth Hangman's Acre' . But.. looking at the map its actually...

Forum: Warkworth and Birling 01-01-2018, 05:42 PM

Replies: 33 Butts at Warkworth Views: 29,620 Posted By Coquet You could draw now a line on the map between the... You could draw now a line on the map between the house at the Butts and the riverbank at Helsay and go hunting UXBs. :eek:

Forum: Warkworth and Birling 01-01-2018, 05:36 PM

Replies: 33 Butts at Warkworth Views: 29,620 Posted By Coquet yes same: ... yes same: http://www.coquetandcoast.co.uk/amble-northumberland/showthread.php?t=324

Forum: Warkworth and Birling 01-01-2018, 03:45 PM

Replies: 33 Butts at Warkworth Views: 29,620 Posted By Coquet here's the image series completed 'til we find... here's the image series completed 'til we find the old pictures.:D Had a walk along there today. Just needed a chainsaw to improve the view. http://www.coquetandcoast.co.uk/images/butts-3a.jpg...

Forum: Warkworth and Birling 01-01-2018, 02:30 PM

Replies: 33 Butts at Warkworth Views: 29,620 Posted By Coquet I wonder if that was the same same time as the... I wonder if that was the same same time as the bombs that landed in the estuary / Helsay? Mentioned on here previously at some time but I can't find it.

Forum: Warkworth and Birling 31-12-2017, 03:02 PM

Replies: 33 Butts at Warkworth Views: 29,620 Posted By Coquet I guess this one is a bit further along. Church... I guess this one is a bit further along. Church in the middle I think. Wonder if there are one or two more old cards to get us up to the bridge? http://www.coquetandcoast.co.uk/images/butts-2.jpg...

Forum: Warkworth and Birling 11-12-2017, 05:35 PM

Replies: 33 Butts at Warkworth Views: 29,620 Posted By Coquet Yes memory 'colour' failure there. (now... Yes memory 'colour' failure there. (now corrected). Wow, That's an old company, and not that long gone?. They have been mentioned a few times in newspaper extracts on here I think.

Forum: Warkworth and Birling 11-12-2017, 03:29 PM

Replies: 33 Butts at Warkworth Views: 29,620 Posted By Coquet Yes that's the place. Brown's Green's yard is... Yes that's the place. Brown's Green's yard is absent just a stand of trees on the left. (now new houses) think the photographer must be about here: ...

Forum: Warkworth and Birling 10-12-2017, 06:53 PM

Replies: 33 Butts at Warkworth Views: 29,620 Posted By Coquet Butts at Warkworth A fairly common card from the Monarch series of the Butts at Warkworth. Noticed the tipping of material, rubbish by the look of it, on the river bank. That area of river bank is much wider now?...

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