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Originally Posted by Coquet
You doing some investigations regarding collieries around Eglingham? Have you come across the 1930 Alnwick geology memoir? I can copy the Eglingham section out and put it in here for reference.
Those pits were working the Scremerston coal group. An early 'Eglingham Colliery' gets a mention, but not much, operating 1760?, location now unknown?? (better check the bottom of your garden? )
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Lovely stuff Coquet, thanks
Fortunately the coal occurs east of us but I know who has Tarry Colliery in his field! One of his cows fell down a shaft, hauled out safely though. I'm going to have a recce there soon. Curlheugh had a pit there, one of my Radcliffe ancestors started out his married life working there. The 24 feet deep pit was called Hangwell Law near Ditchburn had a fatality too. The Eglingham pits managed a few deaths sadly.