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Old 06-05-2013, 12:40 PM
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Here is a summary of the Radcliffe mine workings on an OS map from Durham archives.I hope that it transfers ok to this forum.

I have heard an account of an engineer in the fifties, 60 years from Radcliffe's closure, walking through from Broomhill and looking up at the stars at the top of a shaft amid the debris of discarded bikes etc that had been thrown in!
My source also says the dip in the road at Moorhouse that has recently caused problems was probably from an over zealous "nibble" of the Little Wonder seam, a bit close to the cottages for comfort!
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