Drops at Wallsend

A drop at Wallsend (then in Northumberland, England) for lowering a coal waggon directly onto a waiting collier on the river Tyne, By this means the breakage of coal, which lowered its value, was reduced, The oddly shaped building is a staith. As described by Hair, from the Church Pit at Wallsend Colliery laden waggons were lowered down an inclined plane, a distance of half a mile.