Douglas: Thanks for the complete and wonderful answer. What a great thread
we have!
Pax,
Hello Elliot,
there are outcrops of the coal measures off the coast of the Tyneside area,
Newcastle and further north,which are abraded by wave erosion.
The resulting small particles of coal are washed up on to the beaches.
There used to be hundreds of so called sea-coalers in the area who scratched
this dust off the sand and sold it - Amber Films of Newcastle made a semi-documentary film about them many years ago.
http://www.hamiltonfilmsociety.org/showing.php?id=45
A very true to life, and harrowing film.
http://www.amber-online.com/gallery/exhibition134/
http://www.screenonline.org.uk/people/id/502352/
There are very few true seacoalers left today, but many of the unemployed in the area (at the time of Thatcher) collected coal dust for domestic use and to earn a few shillings on the side.
Douglas
Dr. Elliot Puritz wrote:------Nice Doug. As usual, thanks for taking the time to share with us.
What is "sea coal dust" please?
Elliot
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Subject: [LRFlex] Northern England - more Cloudscapes
From the Humber to the Tyne and beyond, more cloudy, moody,stormy and some wide-angly skies.
http://gallery.leica-users.org/album212/Winter_Storm High wind ina copse of trees near Newcastle
http://gallery.leica-users.org/album212/Tyne_from_South_Shields Dusk from the ferry landing at South Shields
http://gallery.leica-users.org/album212/Tyne_from_North_Shields Late winter evening on the River Tyne
http://gallery.leica-users.org/album212/Storm_Clouds_Over_Whitby Five minutes before getting soaked to the skin
http://gallery.leica-users.org/album212/Ravenscar_2 Looking from Robin Hood's Bay to Ravenscar - The town that never was
http://gallery.leica-users.org/album212/Hull_Docks Shot against the light from the Holland-UK Ferry in Hull
http://gallery.leica-users.org/album212/Newbiggin Newbiggin, one of the lesser known seaside towns north of Newcastle, after storms the beach is black with sea coal dust.
http://gallery.leica-users.org/album212/Rendezvous_Cafe The sky on this shot IS real, not created in Photoshop
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