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Blackhall Beach. The wasted shore,
the aerial flight. And Jack Carter
finally gets his revenge in the climactic scene of the classic 1971 gangster
flick, Get Carter. Today, faint traces of former days of industry
can be made out as per the above image, with the line of the aerial flight
still discernible by way of the concrete channel running across the
foreground. The overhead conveyor once
carried coal waste from nearby Blackhall Colliery over and out to sea – and
provided Michael Caine with a handy means of disposing of the body of his final
on-screen kill forty years ago.
The black beach and its coaly waves are beginning to disappear, too, thankfully
– though one can’t quite yet call it pretty.
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