Did you get to know how the staithes worked? The clever way the coal trucks got from pit head to riverside, the coal from truck to ship? I experienced it as a boy of nine in 1963 on my first sea voyage taking coal from Dunston to Battersea power station. I have a question, what are those shaped pieces of wood so in abundance between the rails under the trucks? I don't remember seeing those at the time.
Brilliant video and memories of growing up in Dunston.
Fantastic - thank you.
Did you get to know how the staithes worked? The clever way the coal trucks got from pit head to riverside, the coal from truck to ship? I experienced it as a boy of nine in 1963 on my first sea voyage taking coal from Dunston to Battersea power station. I have a question, what are those shaped pieces of wood so in abundance between the rails under the trucks? I don't remember seeing those at the time.
Fascinating pics.
A living record of industry at the time.
Now a history of times gone .
I played there as a child but back then all the tracks and fittings were gone
Grew up in Dunston in the 60s 70s remember all the coal ships