Water Trades on the Lower River Tyne in the Seventeenth and Eighteenth Centuries
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- Author(s) Wright, Peter D
- Publication type Dissertation, PhD
- Year published 2011
- Pages
- Publisher University of Newcastle upon Tyne
- Place Published Newcastle upon Tyne
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- Name Newcastle University Library
- City Newcastle upon Tyne
- County Tyne & Wear
- Country England
- Postcode NE2 4HQ
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See also the writer's 'Life on the Tyne. Water trades on the lower River Tyne in the seventeenth and eighteenth centuries. A reappraisal', Ashgate, 2014. Explores the water related trades and trading community / networks at work on the lower River Tyne - coal owners, merchants and hostmen on the one hand and a spectrum of water tradesmen, including keelmen, watermen, wherrymen and shipwrights on the other. A focus is on the connection of shipbuilding and ownership. Also deals with the diary of an apprentice hostman, Ralph Jackson