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National Coal Board (NCB) drilling rig

What we know about this image :

Old N.C.B. drilling platform being floated out of Hartlepool Docks. The rig was first floated on July 21st 1958 and on August 2nd left Hartlepool to take up position at Blackhall having been delayed a number of times because of poor weather and sea conditions.

Local resident Chris Martin remembers:"I am now 56 but was a young lad in the 60s. From 1964 to about 1971, my father had a sailing boat moored on one of the old swinging mud moorings at West Hartlepool Sailing Club. I have vivid memories of a rig similar to the one shown in this photograph, being moored up alongside the harbour wall in what was known as the outer harbour. Why, I hear you ask would such a thing stick in a kids mind? Bonfire night. The men on the rig lowered down a large wicker basket of assorted pies (and subsequently gained access to the club facilities)".

Date (of image) : 0/8/1958

Donor : Hartlepool Museum Service

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