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Old 02-11-2015, 06:26 PM
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can anyone tell me where the water pumped out of whittle colliery when it was working . there was no lagoons that I know of . T here was no pit heaps, there was a little bit near the road lorry hoppers is this from the old drift ?

Good Question. The pumped water - I doubt it would end up in the burn without processing of some sort but I cannot recall a lagoon or similar either.

I don't know what happened to the screened stone waste at Whittle. Taken away by rail I guess but to where - Shilbottle pit heap or further afield?
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