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Local Records
1693
Waggon-ways were now first used on the river Wear, by Thomas Allan, esq., of Newcastle, who amassed a large fortune in the collieries, and purchased estates, a part of which still retains the name of Allan’s Flatts, near Chester-le-Street. [LRS]
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- LRS — Local Records or Historical Register of Remarkable Events by John Sykes, Published in 1833 in two volumes
