Seaham Beach - England's sea glass treaure trove - reports, photos, history
Lines heading down from Seaham Colliery in June 1965, those to the left going to the harbour, to the right to the exchange sidings with BR. The former are a self-acting incline, although it appears to be out of use at this time. It was later converted for use by locomotives. The line to the extreme right appears to end at a coal drop, above a small yard perhaps. Scanned from a 6x9cm size negative taken by the late Harry Townley, now the copyright of the Industrial Railway Society (5150).
Photo by R. Lambeth
English Electric 0.6.0DH EEV1197/67 is propelling empty NCB stone wagons bound for South Hetton colliery on 30 June 1978, Pentax SP1000/105mm Ilford FP4
Seaham Past. 2,228 likes · 15 talking about this. A series of local history books about Seaham by Fred Cooper BSc ACMA CGMA covering a range of topics...
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NCB Seaham Colliery was connected to Seaham harbour by a steeply inclined branch which burrowed under the BR Durham Coast line where some exchange sidings were located. Two of their 1960s Barclays are seen by the shed on 22nd November 1980, in original green and later corporate navy blue liveries.
For decades, a bottle factory dumped their waste into these waters—now it's considered the best sea glass beach in England.
Ivor Parrington sent the Seaham Family History Group a 1976 photograph of the now demolished acoustic mirror at Seaham.The design looks like the World War I sound mirrors at Boulby, Redcar and
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Seaham Beach is a Sandy beach located near Seaham in County Durham.No dog restrictions.
Seaham sea glass has such a strong reputation among sea glass collectors that fans of sea glass flock to this town on England's Northern coast.
