North East Industries Through Time

It has been forcefully argued that if there is one place in Great Britain where an industrialised society first emerged, then that place is Whickham on Tyne, some three miles up-river from Newcastle/ Gateshead. Certainly the North East of England was one of the power houses of Britain''s Industrial Revolution, thanks in no small measure to its reserves of coal, galena, and other minerals, and to i...