Industrial Revolution · TURNING POINT ·
Great Northern Coalfield (1700s–1900s)
On the Industrial Revolution map as “Tyneside & the Great Northern Coalfield”
1700s–1900s — The oldest large coalfield in the world: pits, wagonways, colliers and keelmen. Steam engines first pumped mines here, and the railway itself grew out of its horse-drawn wagonways.
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- Steam power, coal and iron (chapter 3 of Industrial Revolution)
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- The Industrial Revolution, 1750–1914
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