Seaview Cafe.
Your uncle was in fact one of those involved in the gym there, I remember him well going to and fro when we were kids on "Ned Fenwicks" shore adjacent to there.
The drift in question behind the Moorhouse farm was the Moorhouse drift, part of the North side of Broomhill colliery which was working the Radcliffe and Albert seams in that area until the closure of the North side in late 1959. A lot of Amble men, including my father, worked there, there was also a day drift in the centre of Radcliffe between Centre Row and Lesley Row which allowed men to enter that part of the mine. The ponies were taken from the stables at Stable Row Radcliffe down that drift and broubht to bank again each day. The coal from this district was transported underground to the East Togston drift,to the South of East Togston farm and over the fields to the colliery at Broomhill.
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