It appears by an order of the hostmen’s company of Newcastle-upon-Tyne, of this date, that waggons and waggon-ways had not then been invented, but that the coals were at that time brought down from the pits in wains (holding eight bowls each, all measured and marked), to the staiths by the side of the river Tyne. — Brand. [LHTB]

 

 

• LHTB — Local Historian's Table Book of Remarkable Occurrences Connected with the Counties of Newcastle-Upon-Tyne, Northumberland and Durham by M.A. Richardson. Published in five volumes in 1844.