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Originally Posted by ROBERTGRAY
As a young child i can remember a pond at the base of newburgh pit heap that my granfather told me someone called luke had drowned in was this a tale he told me . Has anybody else heared the tale .as a young child he would take my brother & i to the top of the shaft & we would drop stones down health & safety would have a field day .we used to walk the old disused railway line from radcliffe to newburgh to the beach o happy days if only i could turn the clock back
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not sure about which pond you mean?what i called the pond was the water at the bottom of the hill between newburgh and bondicarr farm,,the burn flowed into it from the west and underground onto the beach...the only other thing i can think of is there was reservoir by the pit but i never heard of anyone drowning there.