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Old 31-03-2012, 07:03 AM
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Lots and lots of viewers, but not enough posting! Don't be shy, old photos of our area are part of our history. This is the place to upload them and share your memories with like minded people.
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Old 04-04-2012, 02:30 PM
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Was looking at this Edwardian (or earlier) card the other day. Looks lke a painting but I believe these are modified photos turned almost in to paintings by heavily adding colour and lines until there's nothing left of the original photo.

Coastguard Station, Amble.







I was wondering what the group of figures were up to?






collecting sea coal?


Are coal fires a thing of the past?

Not for me, had ours on yesterday (although just recently re-opened after being out of use for decades!) and noted something, a flashback 30 years to when my grandmother was alive, something I'd never thought of in all that time.

See pic below, a bit of social history and folklore


Small sheets of carbon on the fire front hanging down and flapping in the draught:





I'm betting there's no other image on the internet of this phenomenon. !



now.........just what do they mean ????






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Old 04-04-2012, 03:22 PM
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I was suprised when I first saw this one.... when was there a large chimney on Amble Pier?? until I realised it's the old dredger entering or leaving the harbour!
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Old 05-04-2012, 12:27 PM
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What a fantastic postcard, Coquet. I think you're right, it probably is a painted photograph. And what about the quarry wall off to the right with what looks like a vehicle on it!
I think the group of men are bagging up coal. There are a couple of workers to the right with rough trousers and flat caps with a bag. The chap to the left is suited with a bowler on....obviously the chief.
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