Brighton, Sussex, England circa 1970.
A group of men are blacksanding under the pier. William Henry Smallman (left) was known as Harry by most or Sailor by closer friends. He waits for coins that have tumbled out of a ‘one armed bandit’, or have been dropped, perhaps fallen from a pocket and though the slatted wooden pier flooring to be washed up with that Sunday morning’s incoming tide.
Blacksanding Oxford Dictionary online :- The process or occupation of...
more »Brighton, Sussex, England circa 1970.
A group of men are blacksanding under the pier. William Henry Smallman (left) was known as Harry by most or Sailor by closer friends. He waits for coins that have tumbled out of a ‘one armed bandit’, or have been dropped, perhaps fallen from a pocket and though the slatted wooden pier flooring to be washed up with that Sunday morning’s incoming tide.
Blacksanding Oxford Dictionary online :- The process or occupation of panning black sand for gold. Also on line mentions where people collected sea coal from the beach, known as blacksanding.
Thanks to his son Rick Smallman Port Macquarie Australia, who writes that he still has a small collection of the coins that his father found while blacksanding in Brighton.
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