My nephew has pointed me in the direction of a wonderful postcard for sale on the internet. It is a photograph by Burrows of Amble showing a group of miners (including one down a hole) and onlookers digging for coal by rocky outcrops. Coquet Island is in the background. I guess its Wellhaugh Point or the Rocky Shore, as we called it. The website claims it is dated 1915.
Fortunately I found another site which sold the same card back in 2011 and this also displays the reverse, which was sent by Tom C to Mrs Grisdale of South Shields on 12 March 1910:
"...We are still in the midst of the strike here. This completes the tenth week of the stoppage. This card will give you some idea of how the men are getting their coals at present. You can just see the island in the background."
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