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[Thumper]

I,m after any old photo's of Acorn Bank & Ewart Hill Opencast Mines from the 1950's or the 1960's

[Cympil]

I`m not sure if this is what you`re looking for but there`s various photo`s of Acorn Bank Opencast here. Just click on the photo`s to enlarge them

[Cympil]

Also, from 1955 - ``22 ton capacity Euclid trucks negotiating "Euclid-Bridge" over the Hartford Road near Bedlington, to reach the Ewart Hill Tip`` (taken from here)

[Thumper]

Cympil, on 03 January 2011 - 05:12 PM, said:

I`m not sure if this is what you`re looking for but there`s various photo`s of Acorn Bank Opencast here. Just click on the photo`s to enlarge them

Thanks for that I may have seen them before on the Durham Miners Website There very Good anyhow!!!

[Fourgee™]

There's a video of Acorn Bank open cast somewhere here. Let me see if I can find it.

[Fourgee™]

Looks like the submitter removed the video from Youtube but the original topic with more info is available here http://www.bedlingto...-casting-video/

[Cympil]

Thumper, on 03 January 2011 - 06:47 PM, said:

Thanks for that I may have seen them before on the Durham Miners Website There very Good anyhow!!!

The Sixtownships has just released a dvd called `Digging up the past` which visits the Acorn Bank opencast in Bedlington 1959 if that`s any good to you

[johndawsonjune1955]

The group has converted the cinefilm to DVD of the Acorn Bank. Its about maybe 5 minutes or a little more.
Its actually on one of our DVDs "Digging Up The Past"
Cracking footage and when you see them working in 1959 to todays opencast standards its unreal.
visit
http://www.sixtmedia.org.uk. and go to online shop if you want to purchase it.

Edited by johndawsonjune1955, 06 January 2012 - 07:23 PM.