Tag: mining heritage
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Rosedale East
The fledgling has returned. āReading weekā he says. Half term by any other name. A suggestion: ādo you fancy going to the Lion Inn tomorrow? Iāll go on my bike and meet you thereā. So I find myself in Rosedale for the second time in four days. But a different Rosedale with the Inn in…
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Friar’s Goose Pumping Engine, Gateshead
Within a stone’s throw behindĀ the Gateshead International Stadium stands this ruin, well away from the sight of visitors to the stadium. The remains housed a steam engine built by Robert Stephenson for pumping water from the many coal mines that operated below the ground in the 19th century. Coal mining along the River Tyne first…