Quote:
"Has lived a long time at Amble. The new colliery is in the township of Hauxley. At the end of the field in which the pit has been sunk there is a highway. To the north the high road leads to Amble Moor House. The two fields in question are in the township of Amble. About 43 years ago, there was a pit in Hauxley. It was worked by a gin. They conveyed their coals by the highway."
That would put it about 1797, if my maths is right. Don't we have an engraving of Radcliffe with a gin somewhere?
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Just rediscovered a copy of a lease I have for Hauxley Colliery dated 1792, between John Leadbitter of 'the Woodhouse in the county of Northumberland' , for and on behalf of the Earl of Newburgh, and one George Johnson of Byker, colliery viewer.
It says the colliery is in the 'Manor of Ambell'. The one John Thurlow mentions I'm sure.