Echo Memories - Steaming Ponies - and the Valour of Roger the Dodger
The Northern Echo › July 22, 2009
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A DVD telling the story of Ferryhill in old pictures has been released by the local history society. Chris Lloyd looks at some of the tales it triggers
A DAY as grey as a ghost. Spectres of showers haunt the Ferryhill Gap, drifting down the steep valley and soaking everything in their path.See the full content of this document
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Echo Memories - Steaming Ponies - and the Valour of Roger the Dodger
The horses of East Howle don't seem to mind, tugging with their teeth at the grass that grows through the black clinkers at their feet. Little do they know that down below, 66 of their kind were horribly steamed to death more than 100 years ago.
East Howle Colliery was less than a mile to the north of Ferryhill at the foot of a very steep bank. It was sunk in 1872 and boomed briefly.Within 25 years, it was employing more than 1,000 men. B...See the full content of this document
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