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Local Records
1782
This year the Fauld pit, at Gateshead, exploded, by which accident four lives were lost. These unfortunate men were all that were down the pit at the time of the explosion. Three of the bodies were got, the other still remains in the mine. The coals worked here were called the Hopewell. The colliery was on the east side of the High Street of Gateshead, in what is now called the High Ward. It had two shafts, both of which are nearly filled up, and their brinks overgrown with weeds and shrubs. [LHTB]
March 10. — There was a great fall of snow, and next morning a very heavy rain, with a strong fresh wind, which carried off the snow, and raised the river Tyne higher than ever remembered, except in the flood in 1771. Upwards of fifty light colliers, lying under Tynemouth castle, were obliged to cut away or slip their anchors, and drove out to sea. [LRS]
October. — An explosion of gas took place in Wallsend colliery, by which one man lost his life. The coal being set on fire, the colliery was drowned out to extinguish it. [LRS]
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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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