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GOAL MINES OF

List of Collieries which export fromSunderland .

Birtley Walls End

Bourn Moor

Brayton

Eden Main

Eighton, South

Eighton, Lawson and Co.

Hepburn Wear

Hedsworth

Lambton

Hutton Main

Hutton Primrose

New Eden

Nesham High Main

Nesham

Primrose Main

Russel New Main

Wear Brandling

Wear W. End (Hunt and Co.)

Lumley

Wear Main

The quantity of coals sworn to before thecommissioners at Sunderland as consumed inpotteries, lime-kilns, &c. is about 10,000 chal-drons annually.

An estimate of the number of persons re-ceiving employment from this trade was madein 1792, by Dr. Macnab, who calculated that64,724 persons were employed by the col-lieries of the Tyne and Wear, of whom 26,250belonged to the Wear, and 6,704 were pitmenand boys belonging to the works on the Tyne 5and the remainder on the Tyne as follows :

Fitters and runners. 103

Keelmen, boys, boatmen, &c.... 1,547

Trimmers, ballast heavers, &c. .. 1,000