The Forsyth Image Collection

[just william]

hi coquet,
thanks for your reply, "marion" its a name i never came across
in the family. until the daughter in 1911.

dont think they would have been used there in 1902, here i was
thinking george was one of the driver`s of a marion.

regards, william.

[Placidmaster]

Originally Posted by Coquet

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!

just looked at this, wow, always wanted to see what radcliffe was like.

[Coquet]

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

[rocket64]

love these pics...my grandparents lived in a large house there but I don't have a great memory as I was little...does anyone have any pics?

[Coquet]

Originally Posted by rocket64

love these pics...my grandparents lived in a large house there but I don't have a great memory as I was little...does anyone have any pics?

Have haven't missed Billconn's Radcliffe Album here? [login before you click]

[Coquet]

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

[hollydog]

Originally Posted by hollydog

I had a close look at it a couple of months ago before it disappears forever into the sea. There are lots of coins embedded in it - decimal ones mainly - don't know why!

Went to the pole this morning 9/03/2014 and it looks like it might just about survive one more winter. Fascinating layers beneath it of glacial then peat then sand