Another interesting snippet about the mining going on during the 1910 miners strike from the Sunderland Daily Echo of 16 March 1910:
"COAL MINE ON THE SEA SHORE
One of the novelties produced by the miners' strike in Northumberland is the open-air, low water colliery which has been opened on the beach at Amble. The coal outcrops there, and for some time a hundred men have been working regularly at low tide, and it is estimated that 500 tons of coal have already been taken out. Operations are carried out in the usual way, the shot firing being a continual source of interest to the many spectators who watch the work."
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