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Old 20-11-2013, 10:02 PM
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Originally Posted by borderlad View Post
Used to find the brass shell cases down the beach from the planes from RAF Acklington and take them to him for scrap
I was ploughing the beach field next to Hadston Scaurs not long after opencast reinstatement during the miners strike. I was followed all day by a group of lads picking up the brass cannon shells, presumably for scrap.
Tough times, the strike scarred many, only 30 years ago, yet its an unheard of episode to a lot of people living here now

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