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Local Records
1710
About this year Bensham colliery exploded, by which lamentable catastrophe, between seventy and eighty human beings lost their lives. At this colliery the first attempt was made to work the low main seam of coal in the neighbourhood of Newcastle. [LHTB]
June 10. — A petition was ordered to be forwarded to Queen Anne, concerning a riot of the keelmen in the port of Tyne. They had put an entire stop to the coal trade. [LRS]
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- 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.
- LRS — Local Records or Historical Register of Remarkable Events by John Sykes, Published in 1833 in two volumes
