A History of Coal Mining in Great BritainMacmillan and Company, 1882 - 273 sider |
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Side 14
... natural facilities existed for carry- ing on a coal trade . On the north side of the Tyne in the lands of Elswick , which lay immediately to the west of the town- lands of Newcastle - on - Tyne , we find the monks of Tynemouth , the ...
... natural facilities existed for carry- ing on a coal trade . On the north side of the Tyne in the lands of Elswick , which lay immediately to the west of the town- lands of Newcastle - on - Tyne , we find the monks of Tynemouth , the ...
Side 17
... natural ventilation sufficient for the shallow and limited workings of these early times . Even at this period coal leases were beginning to be drawn out with considerable care and detail . In the earliest leases of which we find ...
... natural ventilation sufficient for the shallow and limited workings of these early times . Even at this period coal leases were beginning to be drawn out with considerable care and detail . In the earliest leases of which we find ...
Side 26
... natural ventilation became more feeble and incon- stant , and noxious gases began to imperil the safety of the miners . These gases we first hear of about the middle of the sixteenth century , writing at which time Dr. Kaye , or Keys ...
... natural ventilation became more feeble and incon- stant , and noxious gases began to imperil the safety of the miners . These gases we first hear of about the middle of the sixteenth century , writing at which time Dr. Kaye , or Keys ...
Side 28
... natural causes , but at the time it was wholly ascribed to a " combynation " among the colliery owners in the north , which was brought about in the following manner : - In the year 1582 Queen Elizabeth obtained from the Bishop of ...
... natural causes , but at the time it was wholly ascribed to a " combynation " among the colliery owners in the north , which was brought about in the following manner : - In the year 1582 Queen Elizabeth obtained from the Bishop of ...
Side 30
... Under the name of " the Richmond shilling " ( so termed on account of the proceeds arising from it being subsequently granted by Charles II . to his natural son the Duke of Richmond ) , it 30 A HISTORY OF COAL MINING [ CHAP . IV .
... Under the name of " the Richmond shilling " ( so termed on account of the proceeds arising from it being subsequently granted by Charles II . to his natural son the Duke of Richmond ) , it 30 A HISTORY OF COAL MINING [ CHAP . IV .
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