Jeremy -
In R L Galloway's 'Annals of Coal Mining and the Coal Trade', Volume 1,
there are the following references :
'Waldridge Fell Colliery, near Chester-le-Street, the property of William
Jolliffe, Esq., was won in 1779, the coals being shipped at Fatfield staith
(Sykes, Loc. Rec., i. 317); and reference occurs to Flatts Colliery, in the
same neighbourhood, in 1789 (ib., p. 350).' and
'The collieries shipping coal and the quantities exported from them in the
year 1784, were as follows (Dunn's 'Coal Trade', p. 26):
[Waldridge Fell], H. Jolliffe, Esq., 12,167 Newcastle chaldrons.'
This was out of a total for the river Wear of 244,485 Newcastle chaldrons or
647,885 tons.
I hope this is of some help.
Alan.
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