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English: A drop at Wallsend (then in Northumberland, England) for lowering a coal waggon directly onto a waiting collier on the river Tyne, By this means the breakage of coal, which lowered its value, was reduced, The oddly shaped building is a staith. As described by Hair, from the Church Pit at Wallsend Colliery laden waggons were lowered down an inclined plane, a distance of half a mile. |
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| Source | T.H. Hair, Views of the Collieries of Northumberland and Durham, James Madden, London 1844. |
| Author | Thomas Harrison Hair (1808-1875) |
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