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Genuine question, did the NE pits not use the Geordie lamp (invented by George Stephenson) rather than the Davy lamp
The Davy lamp, first tried in Hebburn Colliery, was most generally used.
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Genuine question, did the NE pits not use the Geordie lamp (invented by George Stephenson) rather than the Davy lamp
You ask a daft question, get a straightforward answer then start booting off about shipbuilding because the SOL was built on a git wass pit.Care to expand?
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Even though Bede used the word Geordie to describe the miners from the parishes of Monkwearmouth and Jarrow way back in the 7th century?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).
Shipbuilding on the Wear took off because of the SD14 form Pickies.
King Charles IKing George got his arse kicked;
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Because of the Fog on the Tyne?The maritime history of the river Tyne seems to have eclipsed the history of the river Wear. I don’t really understand why but the Tyne seems more well known.
It’s certainly more evident in popular culture.
Even though Bede used the word Geordie to describe the miners from the parishes of Monkwearmouth and Jarrow way back in the 7th century?
Shipbuilding on the Wear took off because of the SD14 form Pickies.
Traditionally a lot of Sunderland's support came from Durham pit villages, too.
However, my suspicion is that Murray came up with this after choosing the stadium name.
First time I heard about it was from an article many many years ago in the echo but I've never actually seen the original text which I presume was written in Latin anyway. I have seen the text where Bede says he was born in sundered land though so I'm guessing the bit where he describes the "coal miners of the Parishes of Monkwearmoth and Jarrow who name themselves Geordie" is also true.Oh! Didn't know that!!
Even though Bede used the word Geordie to describe the miners from the parishes of Monkwearmouth and Jarrow way back in the 7th century?
Must say I’ve never heard of that before.First time I heard about it was from an article many many years ago in the echo but I've never actually seen the original text which I presume was written in Latin anyway. I have seen the text where Bede says he was born in sundered land though so I'm guessing the bit where he describes the "coal miners of the Parishes of Monkwearmoth and Jarrow who name themselves Geordie" is also true.
Dinnit be daftThe maritime history of the river Tyne seems to have eclipsed the history of the river Wear. I don’t really understand why but the Tyne seems more well known.
It’s certainly more evident in popular culture.
But we built the bulbous Bow for the QE2 and sections of the IS Kharg that went down in the Gulf a few months ago in suspicious circumstances.The titanic wasn't available mate
I’d be delighted to be convinced otherwise but television, music, the arts would appear to support my theory.Dinnit be daft
Where they mak them an tak them, the salt o’ the earth.The Sunderland claim to fame was the biggest shipbuilding town in the world
This came about because all the Wear shipyards were in Sunderland .Unlike the Tyne and other rivers
Over the last six centuries there were over 400 Registered shipyards on the Wear from the harbour mouth up to just past the Golden Lion at South Hylton, its pretty much recorded in the history of the country so that would to me suggest Sunderland is the home of shipbuildingThe Sunderland claim to fame was the biggest shipbuilding town in the world
This came about because all the Wear shipyards were in Sunderland .Unlike the Tyne and other rivers