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

1807

March 11. — As a loaded coal cart, with two horses, was attempted to be backed to the door of a house near the top of the steps leading from St. Nicholas� church yard, in Newcastle, the cart, coals, horses, and man, were precipitated in a moment into Dean street, a fall not less than thirty feet, without receiving any material injury. [_LRS_]

May 1. — A tremendous thunderstorm visited Newcastle and its neighbourhood. A man standing on a pit heap, near the shaft of Urpeth colliery, had both his shoes torn from his feet, without receiving any personal hurt whatever. [_LRS_]

September 5. — A cold wind from the N.E., accompanied with a heavy and incessant rain during the whole day and night, produced so remarkable a swell in the river Tyne, at Newcastle, that next morning (Sunday), the beautiful little island called the King�s Meadows, was entirely under water. Large masses of grain in sheaf (wheat, rye, harley, and oats.) came floating down, and several coal keels, which put off for the purpose, got their loading with part of the wreck. A whole field of oats, the property of Mr. Forster, of Newburn-hall, valued at £300, was entirely swept away; and at several other places, along the banks of the river, similar losses were sustained. At Hexham, the united force of the wind and the rain tore up several trees by the roots; and the low grounds near the town were covered with various descriptions of wreck. In a broad, but confined part of the North Tyne, near Haughton paper-mill, the river was observed to obtain a rise of at least fifteen feet beyond its usual bounds. [_LRS_]

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