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        • Our Colliery Villages East Holywell 1873
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In 1920, during excavations connected to the removal of Bucks Hill, North Blyth, some curious finds were made. The most fascinating came when workmen came upon a huge anchor in one place in a fine state of preservation. The question then arose to how did it get there ? It could not have been used for it's original purpose because the stock in the anchor was detached and laid parallel with the anchor, which was doubtless quite new when it was laid there.

About the time much of this land was made by the deposit of ballast in form of chalk and shingle, anchors were made in great numbers at the higher part of the river at Bedlington Ironworks, Bebside Furnace, some of which figured in metropolitan exhibitions. It may have been that the anchor dug up had been intended to have been hidden temporarily for secret removal, prevented by unforeseen circumstances.

No matter what theory may have been conjectured concerning it's presence there, it's history will never be told. The finding of it, however, was a good thing for the workmen who discovered it, for they were given it's value in pocket money by their generous employers.



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