March 20. — A pitman working in a coal pit at Mitford, near Morpeth, was, by a sudden shutting in of the earth, inclosed in it, and, notwithstanding the efforts of some hundreds of people, could not be got out until he had lain six days in that dismal situation. The poor fellow was alive, but had lost the use of his legs and thighs. [LRS]

October 16. — A very large tree, intended for Mr. Blackett’s colliery, at Heworth, was drawn through Newcastle by 17 horses. It measured 161 feet, and was brought from Walton Park, in Cumberland. [LRS]

November. — As William Fenwick, esq., of Bywell, was fox-hunting, a fox was started which the hounds pursued upwards of twenty miles, when being hard pinched, and the hounds in full view, reynard took into a drift that led into an old coal pit ; four couple of the dogs pursued him close up the drift, when they all fell down the pit and were drowned. [LRS]

 

 

• LRS — Local Records or Historical Register of Remarkable Events by John Sykes, Published in 1833 in two volumes