Posted by ingrid bannister on 11/22/2004, 11:16 pm, in reply to "Re: Locations of Mines around West Auckland" --Previous Message--
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: Thanks Keith for supplying the two
: links. when I created the page for
: the mines around West Auckland, I
: spoke to a number of people and found
: it very difficult to get an exact
: position of mines, and indeed what
: they were called. A lot of people
: would use St Helens colliery, to mean
: any of the colleries in St Helens. So
: some of the markers on my map were
: pure estimates based on what I had
: been told and others were placed
: using the coordinates given by the
: durham mining website. But thanks for
: the links, If anyone gets any more
: info on mines in our area please post
: here or email me. On another note
: does any one have any pictures of the
: mines. As I am only in my early
: thirties I remember the pit heap near
: lockies garage, does anyone have any
: photos of that.
: --Previous Message--
: My father and uncle used to talk of
: "Brocken Back". Probably
: "Broken Back Colliery which, if
: I remember correctly their
: "crack" was on the Warner
: site at St Helens. They were born
: and brought up in Dent Street at
: Tindale so they would have known. St
: Helens colliery is shown on your map
: on the opposite side of the road.
: Was "Brocken Back" a slang
: name for St Helens Colliery or was it
: different? The Durham County Mining
: Museum web-site hasn't this
: information.
:
: :
:
I'm not sure what 'brocken back' means either but that's what my nanna and her sisters call the area from Dale St, Maude Tce,to the woods behind Warners.
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