Confusion over the Drifts.
Moorhouse was South of the Moorhouse farm and situated in the lonnen which went to the Hope farm, it was a brick building and also had a powder magazine attached. There were steps all the way down and it remained there until the opencast of the late 60's early 70's. From the field adjacent you could look down.
Radcliffe was there until the mid 50's I would say, unfortunately I haven't seen any photo's of it.
Hauxley South was a drift near to the old Newburgh colliery and was created when the opencast, which had worked in that area in the late 40's, finished, they left the cut open and a concrete tunnel was built then covered up so making the entry. There were screens built astride the old Newburgh railway and the output was processed and taken via Radcliffe to the harbour at Amble.
It operated for about 5 years until the early 50's when water broke in and it had to be finished.
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