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#1
21-10-2013, 04:14 PM
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The Forsyth Image Collection
Thanks to the work of Hollydog (and Hollydog Snr.!) we have been given permission to reproduce Joe Fosyth's photo collection of the changes that occurred in Hauxley and Togston Townships with the opencast operations of the 1970s.
We will add pictures over time and there are a lot of them. The gallery is just started here: http://www.fusilier.co.uk/hauxley_no...cast_1970.html I had no memory of 'Sea View' so very nice to see it at last! Last edited by Coquet; 21-10-2013 at 04:24 PM. Reason: sp 
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#3
22-10-2013, 07:07 AM
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More congrats to all involved, the buildings to the left of the first photo, more or less opposite the "dig" site, is Bondicar farm. This was farmed by the Douglas family and was locally known as "Bye Ayes" because Geordie Douglas had a habit of adding this at the end of a sentence.
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#4
22-10-2013, 07:39 AM
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Memories
Brilliant picture. I used to deliver the papers for Charlie Nyberg as a 10 year old, starting off at Radcliffe then Kirkwell Cottages,High Hauxley,Low Hauxley,the old caravan site and when i got to Newburgh i knew my shift was nearly over ! I cant wait to see more of the collection.
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#5
22-10-2013, 10:48 AM
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A few more added. you might have to refresh the page in your browser to see them.
I reckon Newburgh shaft should be about where the bulldozer without its blade is parked in this picture (link below). Have they covered the shaft with girders and stuck that on top? ! http://www.fusilier.co.uk/hauxley_no...molished2.html [edit: or it could have been in the depression in front of that bladless bulldozer?]
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#6
22-10-2013, 12:57 PM
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Re; Enlargement (Forsyth Collection)
There is an upright white post just left of centre behind the spoils mound.
Is this a navigation aid for mariners or a opencast marker of the boundary of the dig? I can't recall it being there in the days I tramped down the old road from East Togston Farm corner after getting off Craiggs' bus. Quite a route march by todays standards but essential if I wanted to go to the beach.
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#7
22-10-2013, 01:16 PM
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I have enlarged the original slide of the first picture in the set with the cottages (it can be just seen on the picture on here) and the white pole does appear to be there, over by Bondicarr dunes, not directly down where the road was.
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#8
22-10-2013, 01:30 PM
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The photo with Hauxley pit heap in the centre, I notice this was already being removed as the top is flat. When it was being used the top was pointed, a stone buck pulled by a hauler, ran up on rails and was tipped when it reached the top so keeping the apex pointed.
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22-10-2013, 02:32 PM
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14-11-2013, 12:34 AM
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16-11-2013, 12:00 PM
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Yes it is quite a record of a tortured landscape.
here is that brick building again enlarged out of this one: http://www.fusilier.co.uk/hauxley_no...pencast_6.html 
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21-11-2013, 04:32 PM
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#14
21-11-2013, 04:40 PM
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Those Radcliffe Chapels are beautiful buildings, shame they're gone. I want to have a look inside.
 http://www.coquetandcoast.co.uk/ambl...&pictureid=126
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