Brick Club Photograph Collection

[janwhin]

I called in at the Brick Club on Sunday and was told that at some point in the past photographs had been borrowed and some not returned.
Now I know where they ended up thanks to Coquet's thread on Woodhorn images, even down to the text style at the foot of the photographs

[Coquet]

Like the drift photo?


Looks like it came into their possession in 2001. They (Woodhorn) should have a record of the donor.



That's a well tramped little drift. Oh the stories that could tell.

[janwhin]

Yes, that one is a copy.It looks like Woodhorn have copies of some of the Club's existing photographs and I guess some of the originals went too.

We did get permission and took some photos of the Club's photographs but the light was bad. We managed to get the wall lights switched off but the ceiling lights still affected some of them. We have been asked back to try again so we'll wait until there's more natural light available. We'll get organised and pass the first attempts to you in the next week. There are some lovely old ones (10), some of miners (like the Woodhorn one) at Chevington Drift (8)and some of the opencast (7) as it went through the Drift. Hope I've counted right!

Just to whet your appetite

[Coquet]

Looking forward to it. I know it's a difficult job when they are behind glass.

[Coquet]

And..... here they are.

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There is a question about No. 12, Is it East Chevington?. Possibly not with the strata dipping like that - could be close to or between the Hauxley and Bondicar faults in my expert opinion.

The fault in the photo (actually a pair of them) is not significant. Just a 'slip' to use the mining term for small displacement faults.

[Coquet]

23 is a nice one of old mine workings uncovered.