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Northumberland Completed Look up Requests / Re: COMPLETED - Where exactly is Bigges Main?
« on: Saturday 10 March 12 04:36 GMT (UK) »
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Hi Guys nice to meet you all,
1939 on there abouts my dad took me on walk around Bigges Main, or what was left. Parts of the foundation was still visible, everything else was covered in grass. He said he was born on the middle row 1902 and I believe he lived there until he married. His father and family moved to Westmorland estate. "Main crescent and Biggs gardens".
The dirt road that was mentioned was the remains of a waggon way. I recall a mound of "slag" from a very old mine, and a rickety building half-way between the Masons Arms and Bigges Main that we called "the powder monkey", explosive storage building.
The Waggon way is where dad met mam. She worked at the farm about 1 mile north of the coast road up past Wills factory which of course was not there then. I have forgotten the name of the form. But it was well known.
John Connolly
Hi Guys nice to meet you all,
1939 on there abouts my dad took me on walk around Bigges Main, or what was left. Parts of the foundation was still visible, everything else was covered in grass. He said he was born on the middle row 1902 and I believe he lived there until he married. His father and family moved to Westmorland estate. "Main crescent and Biggs gardens".
The dirt road that was mentioned was the remains of a waggon way. I recall a mound of "slag" from a very old mine, and a rickety building half-way between the Masons Arms and Bigges Main that we called "the powder monkey", explosive storage building.
The Waggon way is where dad met mam. She worked at the farm about 1 mile north of the coast road up past Wills factory which of course was not there then. I have forgotten the name of the form. But it was well known.
John Connolly