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Loom, named on the earliest OS maps, is the next main headland south from Shippersea. In popular use, the name has been replaced by the designation 'Aerial Flight' after the overhead cable and tipping apparatus than ran from Easington Colliery and dominated the headland.
A similar bucket-conveyor, although sited further south at Blackhall Colliery features at the end of the film, 'Get Carter' Link
As Christopher Somerville wrote for The Telegraph in 2002, the tide has turned for the once scarred East Durham coast; "I found it impossible to reconcile the beauty of this scene with what I saw here on those student jaunts, more than 30 years before - a blackened shore where a skeletal conveyor gantry vomited mine waste into a filthy, greasy sea."
Mesolithic flints have been found in the area.