Bessie Pit Coal Drops
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Bessie Pit Coal Drops
Image: © Robert Graham Taken: 12 Dec 2012
These are along Blaydon Burn. They were used to load coal into waggons on the railway which once ran along the burn. This is now the public footpath.
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Image Location
Latitude
54.956317
Longitude
-1.737164