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#1
03-05-2014, 02:40 PM
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1926 Strike
In the West Cemetery burials there is an entry for a John Arkle, miner, aged 36, killed on the beach. He was buried on 26 October 1926.
I believe the 1926 miners strike lasted from May to November so by October things must have been pretty desperate. I wonder if this man died while digging for coal on the beach. Does anybody know? 
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03-05-2014, 04:17 PM
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30 October 1926 - Cheltenham Chronicle:
"Five miners were entombed while working outcrop coal near Amble, Northumberland. Robert Arkle was suffocated, but the others were rescued alive." Not much info. Surprised there is nothing in the Newcastle press.
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03-05-2014, 04:41 PM
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In June of that year a photo appeared in the Daily Herald captioned:
"Miners at Amble, Northumberland, building a wall on the beach, where they have been digging coal, to protect their workings from the high spring tides. The wall is made of rock and sand, and was hard to make, but if only one tide flooded their beach pits, these would have to close down." I think they must have been working those shafts at the high water mark south of Signal Cottage. Went 30 yards under the dunes apparently according to that geology memoir I've quoted elsewhere. Dangerous activity for sure.
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