The Waggonway North Shields |
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'Waggonways' signs set in pavement from Billy Mill Avenue, showing the direction of the waggonway carrying coal from Preston Colliery to North Shields Gasworks where gas for cooking, lighting and heating was extracted from the coal
North Shields Gasholder in Minton Lane, at the end of the Waggonway Trail
was dismantled in 2009
(known by my grandchildren as The Elephant Cage)