Durham Mining Museum - Local Records Extracts (original) (raw)

		

1671

Waggon-ways or rail-ways for the conveyance of coals appear to have been in use on the Tyne at this period. In Bailey�s View of Durham, it is stated [on the authority of — Robson, then agent at Ravensworth] that the earliest mention of coals delivered by waggons occurs in 1671 at Team-staith. [_LHTB_]

The following occurs in Gateshead parish books :– "Paide for powder and match when the keelmen mutunyed 2s." [_LRS_]

Sources

• LHTB — Local Historian's Table Book of Remarkable Occurrences Connected with the Counties of Newcastle-Upon-Tyne, Northumberland and Durham by M.A. Richardson. Published in five volumes in 1844.
• LRS — Local Records or Historical Register of Remarkable Events by John Sykes, Published in 1833 in two volumes