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Old 05-02-2012, 01:38 PM
Alan J. Alan J. is offline
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Default Old colliery shaft.

That shaft was there to within the last 20 or so years, right at the corner known as "The Keepers", it had a stone wall aroud it about 6 or 7 feet high. I believe there was also a cottage near to the site as well up to the 1930's.
There were several pits in the Shilbottle area from time to time, my ancestors lived and worked there in the 1830's/40's and were described on the census returns as "Pitmen".
My Great grandfather, born 1848, moved around for work and eventually ended up at North Broomhill having been in the Bedlington area and Pegswood before that all presumably to find and retain employment. When he died in 1907, at Broomhill he was a deputy overman at Broomhill colliery.His father came from Hobberlaw on Alnwick moor where there was a pit too.
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