Amble East Cemetery

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Another story behind the name of a burial and a surviving headstone: "Christopher Robertson Copeland, aged 31, of Dovecote Street, Amble. Killed at Togston Colliery. Buried 8 December 1899.
Morpeth Herald, 9 December:-
"On Wednesday, a miner named Christopher Robertson Copeland, 31 years of age, employed at Togston Colliery, near Acklington, came to a terrible death by falling down the colliery shaft. His body was picked up at the bottom disfigured beyond all recognisability. Some workmen engaged at the bottom of the shaft had also a narrow escape from injury by some falling timber, which had been dislodged by the deceased in his precipitated descent down the shaft. The deceased was married, and the sad accident has caused a painful sensation in the neighbourhood."