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Originally Posted by janwhin
Coquet, I was speaking to someone who worked on the opencast for years and he said that they came across old workings towards Woodside, somewhere near the bends on the Woodside/Acklington road.
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Probably Broomhill workings, although could be from any of the myriad of mining efforts over the last few centuries!
I have a vertical section from a bore in that area that is allocated to Broomhill Colliery anyway.
I recall that Woodhorn museum have some old mining artifacts recovered from the opencast sites - Togston Colliery I think for one, don't know if they are on display though. Probably lots of interesting objects from the deep mining roadways end up dumped from the opencast coaling operations. Bullock's Hall colliery will have just had that treatment under the Maiden's Hall opencast operations. All those lovely mining artifacts for the Amble museum lost forever.
About 75 meters down to the Yard seam ( Probably the NCB letter "G" Seam) there:
