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You might want to have a good walk around the site the ground is built on.
We built ships to transport the coal. Without the coalfield it's doubtful we'd have been such an important port.
OP’s had a mare here like
SD14 was only built from 1965. Shipbuilding was founded long before that.Used to work owa the river mate. Very familiar with the local geography and history.
Shipbuilding on the Wear took off because of the SD14 form Pickies.
Care to expand?
The stadium is built on the site of Wearmouth pit (where I worked) and not on the site of a shipyard .Care to expand?
FFS.
1. It's built on a pit, not an old dock
2. Its called the Stadium of Light, not the Stadium of Water.
3. THe Clanny Lamp, the original working pit lamp was invented at Bishopwearmouth, the original ship, er, wasn't.
Genuine question, did the NE pits not use the Geordie lamp (invented by George Stephenson) rather than the Davy lamp
Yes the Stephenson lamp was used in the North-East, the Davy Lamp elsewhere - basically because the courts ruled Davy had been first, but the North-East region disagreed. Stephenson was eventually cleared, but davy always claimed he had stolen the idea. Stephenson had a major fluke in his development, and that didn't sit well with the scientific community. Eventually a national standard was adopted and that being arranged down south, it was the Davy lamp that won out. It is the most plausible origin of the term 'geordie', but of course not the only one (King George etc).
But we have a Davy Lamp at the entrance?
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Keel Square is precisely that. There's a Maritime Heritage workshop in the East End.It's not a priority but we should do something to reflect the shipbuilding heritage of the city. I say that as someone who has no ancestry associated with either the ship yards or the mines.
Much of the stadium and its surrounds are still a blank canvas. I'm sure something could be done if someone creative had a spark.
Sunderland marraDon’t forget that, apart from the SOL being built on the pit site, we are or should be the County Durham club, a county where coal was king.
I always preferred the ship badge though…
Yeah! Should be a George Stephenson lamp, not a Davy lamp. I'm not even sure that's a Davy lamp. Eccles lamp?But we have a Davy Lamp at the entrance?
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King George got his arse kicked;
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Keel Square is precisely that. There's a Maritime Heritage workshop in the East End.