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Originally Posted by Alan J.
There was an endless rope haulage system from the pit to the gas works at Alnwick. It went through the Cawledges somehow, possibly using bridges to negotiate the terrain. This info came from a person who had worked there, apparently the Alnwick men used this route as the best way to walk to work at Longdyke.
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Interesting. Yes there must have been a bridge across the Cawledge Burn.
Do you know anything about Old Shilbottle Colliery, that is the one even before longdyke? its at about lat/long 55.380439, -1.6884533 the green arrow on here:
http://maps.google.co.uk/maps?q=55.3...gl=uk&t=h&z=15
Bizarre thing about this pit is that the shaft is still shown on the most recent OS Maps, as if it's still there. if you zoom in on that map it (the shaft) should be a few metres to the west of the parked car. I recon it's 1,150 metres from the Longdyke shafts.