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Local Records
1768
June 14. — The coals from the new won colliery at Tanfield Moor, belonging to the Right Hon. The Earl of Kerry, were conveyed down to the staith, at Derwent-haugh, and were considered by judges equal in quality to any coals brought to the river Tyne. [LRS]
August 5. — The well-known Alice Marley, who kept a public house at Picktree near Chester-le-Street, being in a fever, got out of her house, and went into a field where there was an old coal pit full of water, which she fell into and was drowned. [LRS]
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- LRS — Local Records or Historical Register of Remarkable Events by John Sykes, Published in 1833 in two volumes
