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Old 12-06-2013, 10:01 PM
Derilda Derilda is offline
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Wink East Togston Drift

Coquet, you are correct as above with your cross referance to another map.
The drift is East Togston which I used to walk down when I worked as a timber laddie in the Prince seam. Williamtheyounger will also confirm this as he visited his father many times who worked on the rolley way landing at the drift. When in the foreshift my week could only start at midnight because I was under twentyone years old. (Not allowed, by law, to work on a sunday. The World has changed a lot since then.)
Just as an aside, I often heard a story that a butchers cart drifted off the track to Coldrife Farm during snow and was swallowed up when it fell into old workings. I was hoping that the story would be confirmed by opencast work but have just learned that those fields were left untouched. If true they will still be down there, but also, could just be another story to go unproven.
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