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  1. Barred Wobbler

    Mining application for open cast mining at Druridge Bay

    And good luck to Banks. They should never have been refused. The application met all the criteria, but was turned down even in the face of the approval of Her Majestie's Inspector at the Public Inquiry, after already being granted unanimous permission by the planning authority. If not for...
  2. Barred Wobbler

    Mining application for open cast mining at Druridge Bay

    May I just direct everyone to the original post on this thread, which seemed to suggest that if Highthorn was to be approved it would destroy Druridge Bay, an absolute nonsense in itself, seeing as how most of the hinterland of Druridge Bay has already been mined continuously between the 1950s...
  3. Barred Wobbler

    Mining application for open cast mining at Druridge Bay

    It never meant that in my thirty-odd years of working in the coal industry. Maybe we should distort language in a Humpty-Dumpty kind of way to meet the misconceptions of those who haven't a clue what they are talking about. 'Coal industry' and 'Electricity Generating Industry' have never meant...
  4. Barred Wobbler

    Mining application for open cast mining at Druridge Bay

    The Netherlands coal industry closed in the mid 70s. They haven't mined any coal for decades in Limburg. http://www.citg.tudelft.nl/nl/over-faculteit/afdelingen/geoscience-engineering/related-links/coal-mining-in-the-netherlands/ The Guardian report actually says 'The Dutch parliament has...
  5. Barred Wobbler

    Mining application for open cast mining at Druridge Bay

    Great news.
  6. Barred Wobbler

    Mining application for open cast mining at Druridge Bay

    Here we are. Found it. June 1982. Spotted Flycatcher sitting on my garden fence. Photo taken through the glass of my sitting room window with a Nikon FM, Vivitar 135mm lens and a Hoya 2x converter. The nettles in the background mark the edge of the site.
  7. Barred Wobbler

    Mining application for open cast mining at Druridge Bay

    Further to what I was saying about field layouts and agricultural fashion above, I've dug out a couple of photos I took just short of 20 years ago - June 1996. Time flies. It feels like last week. Photo 1. A general shot over Druridge Bay. The bulk of the foreground is taken up with the square...
  8. Barred Wobbler

    Mining application for open cast mining at Druridge Bay

    In what way Brian? The restored sites at Linton, Acklington, Chester House, Togston, Radcliffe, Coldrife (Druridge Bay CP), Ladyburn, all now have mature hedges and semi-mature/mature trees, broadleaf and conifer. All but Linton are on the bay or just inland. The same goes for Butterwell, at...
  9. Barred Wobbler

    Mining application for open cast mining at Druridge Bay

    Thanks for the comment, Mick, but I must point out an inadvertent inaccuracy in one of my posts, since corrected with an edit in my post above this one. I misread the grid spacing on the PDFs online and just noticed my mistake a few minutes ago. All other points stand. :)
  10. Barred Wobbler

    Mining application for open cast mining at Druridge Bay

    I've now had time to scan a couple of the plans from that link to the planning application in my post above, it was rather late when I posted that (well after midnight) and I didn't have time for scanning etc then. These documents are now public documents, originals available at Northumberland...
  11. Barred Wobbler

    Mining application for open cast mining at Druridge Bay

    I don't know the details on that. Presumably they will have been consulted on the proposals and there may already be agreements.
  12. Barred Wobbler

    Mining application for open cast mining at Druridge Bay

    You're welcome.
  13. Barred Wobbler

    Mining application for open cast mining at Druridge Bay

    I was just doing a google to see if I could find some film of the small bucketwheel at Radar North and it was quite a surprise to come across this film intead. I didn't know it had been uploaded. https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=OqtJ8zoOOFU It's a PR piece made by Crouch Mining in 2003 to...
  14. Barred Wobbler

    Mining application for open cast mining at Druridge Bay

    It's a big one. They are only suitable for digging soft and unconsolidated deposits, so ideal for the conditions there. They can't cope with rock such as the shales and sandstones of our interseam deposits. There was one bucketwheel excavator here that I know of, but it was a tiny thing, built...
  15. Barred Wobbler

    Mining application for open cast mining at Druridge Bay

    It's a big bucket wheel excavator, but I'd be surprised if it was that heavy on its own, although there would be a few miles of conveyors taking the muck away - maybe they include that in the total weight. Ace of Spades, the dragline at Stobswood was the biggest dragline in Europe at the time...
  16. Barred Wobbler

    Mining application for open cast mining at Druridge Bay

    That's what I had in mind when I typed what I did.
  17. Barred Wobbler

    Mining application for open cast mining at Druridge Bay

    Regarding the map you saw. Did 'the area to be mined' really encroach 'right to the edge of Cresswell Pond', or was that an impression given by others, because no maps that I've seen do that. Was the map the early consultation document that I saw in the cafe at Cresswell some time ago and which...
  18. Barred Wobbler

    Mining application for open cast mining at Druridge Bay

    Druridge Bay, north from Druridge Lane and part of the land south of Druridge Lane, all the way to the fields south of Amble Caravan Site has been extensively opencasted from the 1950s to the 1990s. Most of the landscape you are describing as 'beautiful and wild' is actually opencast...
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