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

1769

April 15. — Early in the morning, a melancholy accident happened near Wooler. A young man going to the coal pits with a wain, he having been much in liquor the preceding evening, on account of giving in his name to have the banns of marriage published, the horses missed their way in the dark, and fell altogether down an old pit near Barmoor ; where, on Monday, the cart was found sticking about half way down the pit shaft, and the man and horses ten fathoms below, most shockingly mangled. [_LHTB_]

August 29. — Passed through Newcastle, for Capheaton, in Northumberland, Baron Dieden, the Danish Ambasador, on a visit to Sir Edward Swinburne, bart. September 7th.— His excellency returned to Newcastle, and went to Tynemouth moor colliery, when he descended and viewed the subterranean workings, which gave him great satisfaction, after which he set out for London. [_LRS_]

• 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