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Originally Posted by jumpy shore
The face that crosses under the road between New Moor and Amble is heading towards Hope House, in the 60s there was a small spoil heap in a walled enclosure next to the railway bridge on the south side of 'Hope Lonnen'.
Within the enclosure were the remnants of a building(s) and possibly a shaft near the line. From memory the Lonnen which was an unmetalled road exited at the drift at Radcliffe and although it was fenced off you could get down the first few steps and look into the drift.
As an aside the apples in the Hope Farm house orchard which ran down to the enclosure were vey nice!
What year is the map the with workings overlaid, Kirkwell Cottages are are given as 'Kirkwall' and the gardens to the rear of Newbrough St where Ivy Street is now seem to extend a long way?
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That would be the Moorhouse Drift into the coal worked by Broomhill I think? Alan J has
commented on that one.
Also here. I have no recollection of it.
