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Local Records
1776
This year, in a coal mine near Sunderland, a large toad was found alive in a solid coal, near 190 feet under ground, on being exposed to the air, it instantly died. [LRS]
November 19. — Four men were killed by the falling of a scaffold at Washington new winning pit, on the river Wear. [LHTB]
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- LHTB — Local Historian's Table Book of Remarkable Occurrences Connected with the Counties of Newcastle-Upon-Tyne, Northumberland and Durham by M.A. Richardson. Published in five volumes in 1844.
- LRS — Local Records or Historical Register of Remarkable Events by John Sykes, Published in 1833 in two volumes
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