#seaham harbour

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Seaham Harbour

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Home Care and Support Worker 18.5hrs

Home Care and Support Workers 185 hours grade 4 permanent required within Harbour Lodge Extra Care Scheme, Seaham Contract Type: Permanent | Working Pattern: Part time | Salary: £11,750 - £12,351 p.a. (hourly rate of £12.18 rising to £12.80) -part-time Grade 4 PAY AWARD PENDING | Advert End Date: 30/09/2024 23:59 |  http://dlvr.it/TDBtLb

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[ad_1] A major search and rescue effort was launched on Saturday (August 19) afternoon after reports a woman had got into difficulty off Seaham Harbour. Lifeboat, coastguard, and helicopter teams rushed to the scene at about 3.15pm and a woman was taken to hospital in Sunderland after being pulled from the water. Read more: Village turns out in force for orphaned Darlington brothers as appeal nears £20,000 RNLI crews have revealed that a teenage swimmer had got into difficulty around 250 meters from the shore. The RNLI lifeboat at the scene. (Image: KEVIN JACKSON) Duty coxswain Matt Adams said: “We were lucky to find the casualty so quickly who was almost a mile off the harbour and was extremely tired but this is the sort of job we train for on a regular basis with good team work from my fellow volunteers we brought the incident to a safe and satisfactory conclusion.” The helicopter seen coming in to land. (Image: NORTHERN ECHO) . (Image: KEVIN JACKSON) A lifeboat crew located the teenage swimmer and were able to take the casualty aboard the boat and provide casualty care. Read next: Get more from The Northern Echo with a Premium Plus digital subscription from as little as only £1.50 a week. Click here. A Coastguard helicopter lowered a paramedic on to the lifeboat where the casualty was then assessed. Both the paramedic and the casualty were then placed on to the inshore lifeboat and transferred to Seaham Harbour where the local emergency services were waiting to assist. Yesterday (Saturday) Durham Police confirmed it had been called to the incident with the police helicopter also launched. [ad_2]

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Seaham Lighthouse by neandercol

[talesofanaturalspoonie]

I've been a bit absent this past week as there has been so much going on at home I've felt a little overwhelmed. Added to that the GP has upped my pain medications and they have left me feeling super foggy. The two together has meant that I just haven't had the spoons to write down thoughts for the grid. I can't say for sure that 'I'm back' but I am hoping to be able to carve out a little time to focus on my blog and the grid next week. How's your week been? Do you ever take impromptu insta breaks? #seaham #durham #countydurham #seaside #harbour #spoonie #chronicillness #chronicpain #invisibleillness #spoonielife #fibromyalgia #depression #butyoudontlooksick #chronicallyill #autoimmunedisease #ehlersdanlossyndrome #chronicillnesswarrior #life #chronicpainwarrior #spoonies #chronicillnessawareness #anxiety #fatigue #fibrowarrior #chronicfatigue #health #selflove #autoimmunewarrior #hypermobilityspectrumdisorder (at Seaham Harbour, Durham, United Kingdom) https://www.instagram.com/p/B5gVZ-4AUG7/?igshid=14b0xp6d984qx

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Mary Ann Cotton: One of England’s Worst Female Serial Killers

November 26, 2021

Mary Ann Cotton was born on October 31, 1832 to Margaret Longsdale and Michael Robson at Low Moorsley, County Durham. She had a sister named Margaret, born in 1834 but died a few months later and a brother, Robert, who was born in 1835. 

At the age of 8, Mary’s parents moved them to the village of Murton. As a child Mary was described as innocent, with average intelligence and had a very clean and tidy appearance. 

Soon after the family moved to Murton, her father died after falling 150 feet down a mine shaft at Murton colliery in February 1842. The family had been living in a miner’s cottage due to Michael working there, but after his death, Mary’s mother with her children had to be evicted. In 1843, Mary’s mother married a man named George Scott who was also a miner. 

At the age of 16, Mary became a nurse in the village of South Hetton, in the home of Edward Potter, a manager at Murton colliery. Over the next couple years, the children had been sent to boarding school in Darlington, Mary went back to her stepfather’s to train as a dressmaker. 

In 1852, Mary married a colliery labourer named William Mowbray and the couple moved to South West England. While there are rumours that the couple was said to have multiple children who died while living here, none of these deaths were recorded. The only birth that was recorded at this time was their daughter, Margaret Jane, born in 1856. 

William and Mary moved back to North East England where William worked as a fireman, then as a colliery foreman. The couple had another daughter, Isabella, born in 1858. Their first daughter, Margaret Jane, died in 1860. The couple then went on to have another daughter, also named Margaret Jane, born in 1861 and a son, John Robert William, born in 1863, though he died the following year from gastric fever. 

William, Mary’s husband, died in January 1865 from an intestinal disorder. The lives of William and the children had been insured, and Mary collected a payout of £35 on William’s death and £2 5s for the death of her son, John. 

After William died, Mary moved to Seaham Harbour where she met Joseph Nattrass. Around this time, her daughter Margaret Jane (the second one) died of typhus fever. She then went back to Sunderland and got a job at the infirmary, sending her only surviving child, Isabella, to live with her mother. 

She married one of her patients, George Ward on August 28, 1865. Though George was sick, and died on October 20, 1866, after he suffered from paralysis and intestinal problems. The doctor at the time had said that George was very ill, but he had also been surprised at how sudden his death was. Mary Ann Cotton collected the insurance money. 

A man named James Robinson hired Mary as a housekeeper in November 1866. His wife, Hannah, had recently died and the following month, in December, James’ son died from gastric fever. He leaned on Mary for comfort and soon enough she became pregnant. 

During this time, Mary’s mother, became ill with hepatitis, so Mary went to go be with her. She died within days of Mary visiting, at the age of 54 in the spring of 1867. 

Mary’s daughter, Isabella, who had been staying with her mother, was brought back with Mary to James’ house, but soon died, as well as two of James’ children Elizabeth and James. All three children were buried at the end of April and early May of 1867. Mary collected a life insurance payment. 

James and Mary Ann got married on August 11, 1867, and their child, Margaret Isabella was born in November. She became ill and died in February 1868, at just a few months old. The couple’s second child together, a boy named George, died on June 18, 1869. 

James soon became suspicious of Mary Ann, as she had been asking him to get life insurance on himself. He also found out that she had run up debts and was stealing money. Mary Ann had been forcing James’ older children to pawn off household valuables. Upon these discoveries, James kicked Mary out of the house, and got custody of their son George. 

Mary Ann was living on the streets at this point, but soon enough, her friend Margaret Cotton introduced her to her brother, Fredrick, a widower who had lost 2 out of his 4 children. Margaret Cotton had been acting as the children’s mother figure, but in late March of 1870 she became ill and died, leaving Mary Ann to console Fredrick. It didn’t take long for Mary Ann to become pregnant by him, this being her 12th pregnancy. 

Fredrick and Mary Ann were married on September 17, 1870, and their son, Robert was born in early 1871. Mary Ann then learned that her past lover, Joseph Natrass was no longer married and didn’t live too far away. She rekindled their romance, and Fredrick died in December 1871, from gastric fever. 

After her 4th husband died, Mary found a lover named either John Quick-Manning or Richard Quick Mann, though there have been no trace of a John Quick-Manning in any records. Either way, Mary became pregnant by him. 

Mary’s son, Robert died in 1872, and Joseph Nattrass died from gastric fever after changing his will in Mary’s favour. 

Mary Ann was asked to help nurse a woman who had smallpox, however she complained she would not be able to, because Charles Edward Cotton, Fredrick’s son, was in the way. She asked if Charles would be able to work as well. Mary Ann supposedly told parish official, Thomas Riley, that Charles would not trouble her long as he would “go like all the rest of the Cottons.” 

Five days after this encounter, Mary Ann told Thomas Riley that Charles had died. However, Thomas Riley was extremely suspicious of this and asked the doctor to not write a death certificate right away, as they needed to investigate. 

Mary went straight to the insurance office, but soon found out that no money would be paid to her until a death certificate was issued. An inquest was held and a jury determined that the boy died from natural causes. Mary Ann said that Thomas Riley had made accusations against her because she had previously rejected his romantic advances. 

However, news broke out that Mary Ann had moved around England frequently, had lost multiple husbands, a lover, a friend, her mother and 11 of her children all from stomach fevers. 

The doctor who had been looking after Charles, kept samples and tested them to show that there were traces of arsenic present. This doctor informed police and Mary Ann was arrested. She was charged with the boy’s murder, though her trial was delayed until after she gave birth to her 13th child on January 10, 1873. The child’s name was Margaret Edith Quick-Manning Cotton. 

Mary Ann’s trial began on March 5, 1873. The defence argued that Charles had died from inhaling arsenic used as dye in the green wallpaper of the Cotton home. However, the jury deliberated for 90 minutes and came back with a guilty verdict. 

Mary Ann Cotton was hanged on March 24, 1873 by William Calcraft. She did not die from her neck breaking however, rather from strangulation caused by the rope being too short, possible on purpose. 

Of Mary’s 13 children, only two survived: Margaret Edith who lived until 1954, and her son George from her marriage to James Robinson. 

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Songs of lifeboat heroism and disaster.

Cover is ‘The Launch’ by C.J. Staniland for ‘Lifeboats & Lifeboat-men’ in the English Illustrated Magazine, March 1886.

The Mary Stanford of Rye- Meet on the Ledge

Robert Whitworth- Kimber’s Men

Solomon Browne- Hughie Jones

Lifeboat Song- Isla St. Clair

The Kingstown Disaster 1895- Johnny McEvoy

Pull Ebony (Lifeboat Horse)- Anna Shannon

The Port Eynon Lifeboat Song- Coppercaillie

Whitby Lifeboat- Bardishish

The Fraserborough Lifeboat- Keith Davidson

Grace Darling- The Watersons

The Lifeboat Mona- Peggy Seeger & Ewan MacColl

RNLI- The Ruffs

Seaham Harbour Bay- Jim Sharp

Lifeboat Prayer- The Sheringham Shantymen

The Arbroath Tragedy- Fred Dallas

Louise Stephens Lifeboat- Just Bob

1901 Story of the Caister Lifeboat Disaster- Ken Saul

The Visitor- Wendy Arrowsmith

Mary Stanford Lifeboat Disaster- Stars of Aviation

Solomon Browne- Seth Lakeman

20 tracks; 86 mins. [Spotify]

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Coffee pot steam locomotive by Peter Murphy Via Flickr: Former Seaham harbour number 15 coffee pot steam loco which is now in the back of Preston Hall museum after a short spell on a roundabout in Thornaby

[richs-pics]

The Coxswain by Ray Lonsdale

[nem0c]

Seaham Harbour itself is like no other town I have ever seen. It is a colliery town on the coast. It looks as weird as a cart-horse with scales and fins. Its position on the edge of the sea did not relieve it of any of the usual dreariness of colliery towns. In fact, to my eyes it seemed drearier than the ordinary inland mining towns, perhaps because the coast itself there has a dirty and depressing look. The sea was dingy and had somehow lost its usual adventurous escaping quality. You could not believe that by setting sail on that sea you could get anywhere in particular. It was not the kind of sea you wanted to bathe in. Perhaps in summer it looks different, altogether more inviting; but I do not find it easy to imagine that district in sunshine and under a soft June sky. When I saw it winter had set in and apparently taken possession for ever. The town is almost entirely composed of miners' cottages, laid in dreary monotonous rows. They were all so small that they made the whole town look diminutive, as if it were only playing in a miserable fashion at being a town. You saw at a glance that there was very little money about. A couple of shillings here were obviously having to go a long way. Those persistent legends about miners who buy two pianos at once and insist upon drinking champagne would shrivel up and then utterly vanish within five seconds here. This was a place where an old mouth organ or concertina would have to do, and you would be lucky to get beer. Not that I have ever understood the wild indignation of those comfortable middle-class people who at one time went about telling us that miners had been seen drinking champagne. A man who has been working for seven hours at a coal face, crouching in a horribly cramped space about half a mile underground, has a right, if anyone has, to choose his own tipple; and I for one would be delighted if I knew that miners could afford to drink champagne and were drinking it. Horatio Bottomley and his friends, we are told, drank champagne all day for years and nobody protested, though Bottomley and his kind never filled anybody's coal scuttle, only emptied it, and probably never honestly earned for themselves a bottle of stout, let alone cases and cases of champagne. As for Seaham Harbour, it looked as if it could do with, and was not having, that bottle of stout. The town itself was under-nourished.  There is no mystery about this. It is a mining town and its citizens are being shockingly underpaid. They earn about two pounds a week—with luck. A great many of them find that their week's money is nearer thirty shillings than forty. A town on these wages is not a pretty sight.

J. B. Prestley, English Journey

[northeastjobs]

Home Care and Support Worker 18.5hrs

Home Care and Support Worker 185 hours grade 4 permanent required within Harbour Lodge Extra Care Scheme, Seaham Contract Type: Permanent | Working Pattern: Part time | Salary: £11,750 - £12,351 p.a. (hourly rate of £12.18 rising to £12.80) -part-time Grade 4 PAY AWARD PENDING | Advert End Date: 27/08/2024 23:59 |  http://dlvr.it/TBsHmm

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Spotted at Seaham Rokkor 50mm f/1.4 & Canon R6 #foundobjects #foundobjectart #discarded #rokkor #50mm #50mmphotography #standardlens #primelens #seaham #seahammarina #vintagelensphotography #vintagelensphotographer #minolta #paulbradley #photography #paulbradleyphotography #scudmonkey (at Seaham Harbour Marina) https://www.instagram.com/p/CfRu_HQN84Q/?igshid=NGJjMDIxMWI=

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Seaham Harbour, County Durham UK [6895x4597] [OC]

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The Seaham Pier curves out into the rugged North Sea to protect the peaceful harbour from the intense winter storms that come racing by. The cement walkway and lighthouse take a beating each winter but create some incredible shooting opportunities. (54.838712, -1.326937) Photo by NIKOLAOS AXELIS Find it and 50,000 other amazing photo spots with the #PIXEO app! . . . . . #justgoshoot #throughmylens #landscapephotography #landscape_captures #landscape_lovers #EarthVisuals #beautifulplaces #landscapelovers #welivetoexplore #awesome_earthpix #landscapehunter #landscapelover #traveltheworldwithme #ilovetravelling #lazyshutters #slowshutter #longexpo #longexposurephotography #stormchaser #weatherphotography #stormchasing #photosofengland #lovegreatbritain #ukpotd #capturingbritain #bnwphotography #photosofbritain #visitengland #bnw — view on Instagram https://ift.tt/3FpJkep

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Beach finds ••• #seaham #deadfish #shoppingtrolley #massivepebbles #pebblebeach #searchingforglass #northcoast #northeast #countydurham #salomonspeedcross #unexpected (at Seaham Harbour Marina)

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Another shot from the Easter weekends big waves hitting Seaham Harbour. #sonya7riii #sony #landscapephotography #waves #water #pier #sea #3leggedthing #lighthouse #seaham #northeast (at Seaham) https://www.instagram.com/p/CNfVku2Heni/?igshid=by87ffuad26k