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The Forsyth Image Collection Hauxley and Togston Parishes; the old landscape and the opencast. We have permission to reproduce here in digital format some of the original 35mm transparences taken by Joe Forsyth, farmer of this area, who took the time to record this dramatically changing landscape in the 1970s. Copyright remains with Mr. Forsyth. click to enlarge. |
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| 'Sea View' the terrace of houses at Newburgh, photographed from Newburgh Colliery pit heap. The extreme end of the tarmac road that runs north-south behind the dunes from the middle of Druridge bay is visible on the extreme right. The east-west road joining it is gone. The site of the recent Archeological dig is to the left of the houses on the dunes. | 'Sea View' and Low Hauxley. | Radcliffe from Newburgh pit heap. | |
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| Old road to Newburgh and Bondicarr. Low Hall and Broomhill in the distance. | Hauxley from Newburgh pit heap. Amble on the left. Hauxley pit heap centre distance. | Low Hall, Newburgh pit heap and 'Sea View' in the distance. | Low Hall, with the opencast encroaching. |
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| Low Hall Farm House being demolished. | Low Hall and Marion Dragline | 'Sea View' Demolished. | Driver view, dragline at Low Hall |
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| Opencast near Hauxley (Hauxley hall extreme left.) | Opencast | "DG1" heading towards Newburgh pit heap. Unidentified coal seam exposed. | The Marion dragline at Newburgh. Old colliery pit heap on the left |
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| Marion 7800 | Low Hall view north. | Radcliffe from Newburgh | View North, Radcliffe gone, spoil heaps in its place. Moorhouse and Amble in the distance. |
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| The Opencast on, or close to, the old Radcliffe Colliery shafts. | Image 20 in a panorama with East Togston Farm | Low Hall Farm | |
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| East Togston Farm | Radcliffe, another view looking north; Leslie Row and Newburgh Row |
Marion | Opencast |
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| New access road to the north end of Druridge Bay (Togston Links) and the Newburgh area. Low Hall farm in the distance | Radcliffe, view looking north; Leslie Row and Newburgh Row |
Dragline over the Radcliffe Colliery site. | Radcliffe: Dandsfield Place North, with the end house of Dandsfield Place South visible behind. |
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| Radcliffe; Centre Row | Radcliffe; Dandsfield Place South | Radcliffe School | Low Hall with Chevington Drift in the distance |
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| Panorama 4 | North Togston (l) and Hope Farm (r) | Scrapers between Low Hall and East Togston | |
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| East Togston Farm, Radcliffe extreme right. | |||
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