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Description: | The earliest recorded coal mining was in 1351 and when John Wesley visited in 1743, he described Birtley as, "surrounded by collieries on every side". This situation continued until the nineteen sixties when the trade declined. The last coal mined in Gateshead was at Marley Hill Colliery near Whickham in the early nineteen eighties. | Format: | image/jpeg | License: | http://www.asaplive.com/Lco/Lco.cfm?ccs=629&cs=2674&Preview=1 | Publisher: | Gateshead Council | Rights holder: | Gateshead Council | Subjects: | Coal Industry | Temporal: | name=Victorian; start=1837; end=1901; | Source: | iSee Gateshead | Creator: | Unknown | Identifier: | http://isee.gateshead.gov.uk/detail.php?... | Language: | en-GB | Format: | image/jpeg | Go to resource |
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