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Description: | The Keelmen's Hospital was built in 1701 to serve the boatmen who rowed the flat-bottomed coal keels. It was paid for by a charitable fund set up by the keelmen themselves. The building overlooks the crowded houses of Sandgate, which was one of the main areas where the keelmen lived. The hospital was unusual for the 18th century, since working-class people rarely had any control over charitable institutions set up for their benefit. | License: | http://www.imagine.org.uk/about/copyright/ | Rights holder: | Tyne & Wear Museums | Subjects: | work artists living in the North East art North East artists Newcastle coal mining health | Source: | Tyne and Wear Imagine | Identifier: | http://www.imagine.org.uk/details/index.... | Go to resource |
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