Lynemouth is a village in
Northumberland, England, northeast of
Ashington, close to the village of
Ellington
Ellington may refer to:
Places United Kingdom
*Ellington, Cambridgeshire
* Ellington, Northumberland
*Ellington High and Low, a civil parish in North Yorkshire
**High Ellington
**Low Ellington
United States
*Ellington Airport (Texas), Hous ...
to the north west. It was built close to
coal mines, including
Lynemouth Colliery
Lynemouth Colliery was a coal mine in Lynemouth, Northumberland, England. It was in operation between 1927 and 1994. According to Historic England, "it was one of Britain's largest collieries until it was closed due to an underground fire". The ...
.
Lynemouth and the surrounding industrial area featured in the 1985
docudrama
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Docudramas typic ...
''
Seacoal
Seacoal (also written sea coal or sea-coal) may refer to:
* Coal that washes up on the seashore
** ''Seacoal'' (film), a 1985 feature film depicting the lives of the seacoaling community of Lynemouth, Northumberland
* ''(Historical sense of the t ...
'' about the seacoalers who made a living from collecting
waste coal from the beach. A series of photographs in the
Henri Cartier-Bresson Award–winning book ''In Flagrante'' (1988) by
Chris Killip shows the work and life of the seacoalers; more were published in 2011 in the book ''Seacoal''.
[Chris Killip, ''Seacoal'' (Göttingen: Steidl, 2011; ).]
To the south of the village is the former
Alcan Lynemouth Aluminium Smelter, now closed, and
Lynemouth Power Station.
Governance
Lynemouth
electoral ward
A ward is a local authority area, typically used for electoral purposes. In some countries, wards are usually named after neighbourhoods, thoroughfares, parishes, landmarks, geographical features and in some cases historical figures connected to t ...
stretches north along the coast to Craster, with a population at the 2011 Census of 4,842.
Freedom of the Parish
The following people and military units have received the
Freedom of the Parish of Lynemouth.
Individuals
*
Councillor Gillian Thompson : 4 May 2016.
* Mrs. Sarah Hannah "Sadie" Williamson : 4 May 2016.
*
Alderman Milburn Irving Douglas: 10 May 2017. (Awarded Posthumously)
In popular culture
The village can be seen in the 2000 film ''
Billy Elliot''. Lynemouth Cemetery doubles as Everington Cemetery, in which Elliot's mother is buried.
"Dying for someone to take care of cemetery; Plea for landowners to clean up overgrown graveyard"
- ''Evening Chronicle'', 22 July 2008 The colliery, demolished in 2005, can be seen in scenes filmed at the cemetery.
Notes
References
External links
(accessed: 10 November 2008)
Villages in Northumberland
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