Description

SUNDERLAND

NZ3957 WREATH QUAY ROAD
920-1/11/247 (South side (off))
04/07/94 Coal Staithe at Wearmouth Colliery

II

Coal staithe. c1900 with later alteration. Brick piers and
platform facings; wood superstructure lost. 3 graduated sets
of tall, wide brick piers rise in 3 stages to support a
brick-faced platform extending from the high ground of
Wearmouth Colliery to a point high above the shore. Formerly a
wood superstructure on the platform supported railway lines
from which coal waggons could tip coal directly into ships'
holds. This is the last surviving coal staithe on the Wear,
where once each bank was lined by staithes from which the many
local collieries loaded ships. Included for historical
interest.

Listing NGR: NZ3914357684

External Links

• Historic England Listing
• Wikidata Q26513083

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Recommended Books

• 
  For the Record
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  [(Cumberland and Westmorland)] [By (author) Nikolaus Pevsner] published on (January, 1967)
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  Worcestershire Revised Edition (Buildings of England) (Pevsner Architectural Guides: Buildings of England)
• 
  London 4: North: North v. 4 (Pevsner Architectural Guides: Buildings of England)
• 
  London 6: Westminster (Pevsner Architectural Guides: Buildings of England): Westminster v. 6
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  Devon (Pevsner Architectural Guides: Buildings of England)