Wallsend Colliery Explosion – Gateshead – 1790

WALLSEND. Gateshead, Northumberland. 4th. October, 1790.

An explosion was reported in which seven lost their lives.

REFERENCES
Annals of Coal Mining. Galloway, Vol.1, p.293.
Sykes’ Account of the Wallsend Explosion. p.32.
Hogson’s Northumberland, Vol. ii, 9,275 et.seq.

Information supplied by Ian Winstanley and the Coal Mining History Resource Centre.