A PLACE-NAME PUZZLE
The centenary celebrations of the Bedlington Coal Company serve to remind one of the curious place-names which Northumberland boasts, for one of the company's pits is the Bomarsund, and this also gives its name to the neighbouring village, says the "Manchester Guardian." The pit in question was opened by the company in 1905, and took over some existing shallow workings there which bore that curious name. In fact, those workings were opened during the Crimean War. and were so named after a fortress on one of the Baltic Aaland Islands which was surrendered in 1854 by Russia to France and England. The islands, of course, have been "in the news" once more as a result of tension in the Baltic and their joint fortification by Finland and Sweden,
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Evening Post, Volume CXXVIII, Issue 63, 12 September 1939, Page 16
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131A PLACE-NAME PUZZLE Evening Post, Volume CXXVIII, Issue 63, 12 September 1939, Page 16
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