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Northumberland / Re: Northumbrian rivers and their coastal towns
« on: Thursday 22 September 16 22:09 BST (UK)  »
The Coquet runs into the north sea at Amble, just to the east of Warkworth and about 20kms north of the Wansbeck, and is the next main river north of the Wansbeck at Cambois. Just offshore from the river mouth is the lovely Coquet Island which is a nature reserve.
Yes the Coquet does have its source/sources in the Cheviot Hills from where in wends its way eastwards through Rothbury, Warkworth and Amble and eventually into the North Sea. Warkworth Castle is beautifully situated on high ground in a loop of the River Coquet which afforded it natural protection around 3/4 of its perimeter.

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Northumberland / Re: Northumbrian rivers and their coastal towns
« on: Thursday 22 September 16 06:24 BST (UK)  »
Boca Chica was definitely classed as Cambois, not North Blyth, and up to the time when the railway sheds and railway houses were built the area now know as North Blyth was simply the southern end of Cambois. With the new railway sheds being given the name of North Blyth Sheds in 1890 odd, the name stuck and was permanently applied to that southern part of the links
I was born in North Blyth in 1958 at 11, Gray Street and lived there until 1982. My dad was a fireman then a driver on the railway there and was also born in North Blyth at 15, Dale Street. Both my mam and my dad lived in North Blyth all of their lives.
So anywhere north of an east to west line from the south side of the Ridley Arms Hotel (The Willick to locals) over to to the North Blyth signal box and across the beach was always classed as Cambois by us locals. The wooden railway footbridge over the railway lines immediately to the north of the North Blyth signal box was always known as Cambois Bridge, and next to Cambois Bridge on the west side was what was called the Cambois school house, which originally was the local schoolmasters house.
Many of my school friends lived in Boca Chica, Boathouse Terrace, Bridge Street etc and I can 100% guarantee that they classed themselves as Cambois folk. After all they lived in houses built for the workers of Cambois Colliery.
Even though we were called North Blythers we were very very close to our Cambois mates and there was never any rivalry between Cambois and North Blyth (nor East Sleekburn which we also very much classed as being as one with us) because as far as we were concerned we were all from the same little area and we stuck together at all times, played with each other, went to school together, grew up together, so all one big happy family on our stretch of land hemmed in between the Blyth and the Wansbeck and the Sleekburn.








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Northumberland Lookup Requests / Re: Churn side
« on: Thursday 15 January 15 05:12 GMT (UK)  »
I went to school in Cambois in the 1960's 1970' and had a Karen Churnside in my class and her brother Jimmy was a couple of years younger. They lived at what we called the Wembley end of Cambois, up around Wembley Terrace near the River Wansbeck.

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