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Gin

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  1. JDHUNTING http://freepages.genealogy.rootsweb.ancestry.com/~tynesidehistory/collieries.html
  2. Most mining families will have lost someone in the pit or had bad accidents. Both my brothers have had bad accidents down the pit,- one lucky to be alive.
  3. James and Richard, were able to have a headstone
  4. Funeral coffins was 2 miles long to church yard
  5. The broken beam, other half is still down the shaft to this day.
  6. From his notebook, of the prayer meeting.
  7. I'm having some problems with photobucket just now. !
  8. That photo is James Amour http://www.iln.org.uk/iln_years/year/1862a.htm
  9. When the local pit closed , there was enough coal left for many years of mining. A very high price is often paid to get it though. My ancestor James Amour was back-overman at Hartley Colliery (Hester Pit ) in Northumberland,- when at 10.20am on thursday 16th January 1862, the 42 ton pupming beam snapped and 22 ton thundered down the single shaft and blocked it. Trapping 204 men and boys. What made things so much worse,- the day shift and just gone down the shaft to relieve the night shift waiting to come up, so both shifts were down when the accident happened. My ancestor James Amour took c
  10. Interesting photos are reply Feltwad.
  11. Gin

    Two Punt Guns

    Very interesting guns, and a great post.
  12. Hello and Welcome. Are you with the Durham muzzle loaders ?, you may know Gordon, he has a great interest in all that.
  13. I've not heard anything more
  14. Its all got closure from what i understand.
  15. Yes Morpeth is also a very nice historic place,- we used to shop and days out there regularly. I fished the river there also. Happy days.
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