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Northumberland / Re: Northumbrian rivers and their coastal towns
« on: Saturday 06 October 18 19:34 BST (UK) »
Hello I was born in Cambois in late 1940s.
there's always the mystery of Boca Chica (Little Mouth) - a term used for estuaries across the colonial world, named by their eurocentric "discoverers".
That said, I've often pondered as to its original location and meaning in the history of Cambois.
I was doing some mines/coalfield research and came across this map, published 1864. this is about four? years before the cambois coal mine was sunk, and colliery cottages - a whole village - was built and populated. It seems that Boca Chica was a "building" maybe approximately where the Ridley Arms was finally built? which was always called the Willick (=whelk), rather than the ridleyarms, which was a mouthful by comparison. and maybe out of negative deference to Lord Ridley, who owned the new mine and village.
https://mininginstitute.org.uk/education/archive-teaching-unit/a-general-maps-of-the-coalfield/bells-plans-of-the-northumberland-and-durham-coalfield/bell-blyth-and-warkworth/
we also see that Cambois was originally the small group of building (?Browns' Farm) adjacent to the mouth of the Wansbeck.
by mid 1900s, the village contained several thousand souls.
there's always the mystery of Boca Chica (Little Mouth) - a term used for estuaries across the colonial world, named by their eurocentric "discoverers".
That said, I've often pondered as to its original location and meaning in the history of Cambois.
I was doing some mines/coalfield research and came across this map, published 1864. this is about four? years before the cambois coal mine was sunk, and colliery cottages - a whole village - was built and populated. It seems that Boca Chica was a "building" maybe approximately where the Ridley Arms was finally built? which was always called the Willick (=whelk), rather than the ridleyarms, which was a mouthful by comparison. and maybe out of negative deference to Lord Ridley, who owned the new mine and village.
https://mininginstitute.org.uk/education/archive-teaching-unit/a-general-maps-of-the-coalfield/bells-plans-of-the-northumberland-and-durham-coalfield/bell-blyth-and-warkworth/
we also see that Cambois was originally the small group of building (?Browns' Farm) adjacent to the mouth of the Wansbeck.
by mid 1900s, the village contained several thousand souls.