North side RAF Construction etc

[leslie]

Completed Base on Northside.

[leslie]

some one asked how they got there Power and water!

[leslie]

North side houses in back ground

[leslie]

RAF Launch from base

[leslie]

RAF Depot Construction 1938

[leslie]

School boat Collingwood!
With a great shot of Northside complex

[janwhin]

Fantastic archive Leslie, what a great result.

[billconn]

Originally Posted by leslie

RAF Launch from base

My Uncle Selby was based there during the war, and he met my Aunty Gladys who he married, she passed away 2 years ago but Selby is still alive and lives in North Shields. I will make enquires as to if he still has photos from when he was stationed there.

[billconn]

Originally Posted by leslie

School boat Collingwood!
With a great shot of Northside complex

And to think that little boat was still being used for seamanship classes when we where at the Amble Secondary Modern and I started there wit you PC in 1958 and was still in use when I left.

[Alan J.]

The picture "North side houses", these were actually construction cabins which were there when the North breakwater was being strengthened. Note the crane in shot on the breakwater to the right of the photo.

[leslie]

Thanks for correction.not sure where I got that pic

[Coquet]

Originally Posted by leslie

some one asked how they got there Power and water!

I've been wondering how they would protect the services crossing that erosive river bed....A 12' deep trench put in by the dredger would do the job!

[hollydog]

Originally Posted by Coquet

I've been wondering how they would protect the services crossing that erosive river bed....A 12' deep trench put in by the dredger would do the job!

And I presume the extremely unhealthy 160 yards of lead water pipe is still there? That would challenge the scrap men!

[Alan J.]

Picture 41 on the Radcliffe photos is actually the pithead baths not the canteen. There was originally a canteen at Hauxley but it was out of use for many years before the pit closed. The baths, which were just a wooden building, were erected and opened in late 1963, the pit closure was announced in August 1965, someone must have known it wasn't worth building a more permanent structure as at other collieries.

[Coquet]

Originally Posted by hollydog

And I presume the extremely unhealthy 160 yards of lead water pipe is still there? That would challenge the scrap men!

I was also thinking about the scrap value of 4 tons of lead. Bit of a challenge for them though! The electric cable could be worth a bit too - depends on the cross sectional area.

[leslie]

News paper cutting from 1936

[leslie]

Report for North side base

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More for .Acklington Airbase than this page

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Railway line