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

1778

May. — This month, as the John and Mary, Captain Cummins, in the coal trade from Newcastle to London, was casting her ballast on Mr. Cookson's quay, at South Shields, a discovery was accidentally made of some silver coin being in it, when a number of people were set to work with riddles, and a great number of pieces of gold and silver coins were found ; the latter were shillings and sixpences of the reign of Queen Elizabeth, and the former, value about 17s. each, of the Henrys, and very fresh, The ballast was taken up in the river Thames. [_LRS_]

November 6. — A new constructed machine for drawing coals by water was set a-going at Willington colliery, on the river Tyne. Its performance exceeded the most sanguine expectations, uniformly drawing 30 corves, 20 pecks each, in one hour, from a depth of 101 fathoms. [_LRS_]

• LRS — Local Records or Historical Register of Remarkable Events by John Sykes, Published in 1833 in two volumes