A little anonymous project ive been on with, started this in 2015 but just built a website around last week. https://northerndronefootage.co.uk/
like the footage of Lowca . It gives a totally different perspective of familiar places from the air .
Amazing to think you flew over sites where Harrington No10 coal mine was, Micklam brickworks a tar plant and housing that used to be just fields . There was also a level crossing on the road by the long gone Ship Inn where we used to have to stop in my Dad’s Ford Zephyr to give way to the steam engines pulling the coal trucks from the pit . Saddle tank engines called “Warspite” and “Amazon” if I remember .
Wonder if anyone else will show their age by remembering any of that?
Richard
Hi Richard you any pictures of it all? That was all long before I was born, sometimes wish I was around to see all that. If you can think of any where else to fly of interest Richard let me know
I don’t have any pictures of my own Lee but here’s a couple of links to a website that has .
this is roughly the place where Connor and I were with the radio today . I remember I’d be about 6 or 7 and seeing that scene early 1970s . Grandparents lived in the village and grandad worked there Steam's Twilight at Lowca - a photo on Flickriver
In this picture the chap used to come out of his little building with a red flag to stop cars when the locos crossed the road .
'Amazon' at Lowca | Captured in the rain on 22nd June 1972, … | Flickr
this one was taken a day before my 9th birthday by the look of it .
'Warspite' at Lowca | On 12th March 1973, and under the watc… | Flickr
Thats awsome that. Really interesting thanks Richard
Hard to believe within my lifetime , you could have been born, went to school , worked got married ,died and buried in the same village .
Richard
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