>See "Coals from Newcastle" by Roger Finch, Terence Dalton Limited,
>Lavenham, Surrey (1973) which covers the history of the trade in a
>couple of hundred interesting pages
Dave
>es and no - most of the later London gas works got their coal from the
>river and canal not via rail lines. Some of the early works got theirs
>by road - and they were built pre-railway. The really big works -
>Beckton, East Greenwich were entirely served by river. Although, for
>instance, East Greenwich had rail access it was not mainly used for coal
>supply. Rail access was often put in later - for instance those holders
>at St.Pancras which everyone sees are where they are because the rail
>line was put in, a long time after the gas works was built. I could go
>on about this for hours.
>The point about my comment on gas works was because I was ususual. I
>would expect coal from the Tyne to come down by collier and go to gas
>works in London by canal - or later the North London Line. I wouldn't
>expect it to come in by rail! The other point the original writer made
>was about the coal being called 'Tyne' - although it might have come
>from Chesterfield - there has been a previous correspondence about all
>coal being called 'Wallsend' wherever it came from as a trade name.
>The coal trade by collier between London and the Tyne/Wear was massive
>and is very underrsearched. I am interested in anyone who knows much
>about it. I have some information on gas company colliers in London - we
>call them 'Thames colliers' but I notice a recent book about the same
>ships calls them 'Tyne colliers'* - oh well!
>Mary
>
>*steamers at the staithes from Newcastle Libraries Dept. recommended.
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