The local historian's table book, of remarkable occurrences, historical facts, traditions, legendary and descriptive ballads [&c.] connected with the ... and Durham. Historical division Volume 5 - Softcover
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Synopsis
This historic book may have numerous typos and missing text. Purchasers can download a free scanned copy of the original book (without typos) from the publisher. Not indexed. Not illustrated. 1846 Excerpt: ...between Newcastle and North Shields was lighted up with "spontaneous gas' generated in the coal mines at Wallsend.--Local Papers. 1840 (Nov).--Died, this month, at South Shields, in Hancock's Square, aged 103, Mrs. Ann Forrest, widow.--Ibid. This month, a silver communion paten and two silver.communion cups were presented to St. Paul's chapel, Westgate-hill, Newcastle: the former by Mrs. Laidler, the latter by Mr. William Laidler Dunn, and Miss Mary 13. Dunn.--Ibid. In the list of new patents for this month is one to Charles Parker, of Darlington, flax-spinner, for improvements in looms for weaving linen and other fabrics, to be worked by hand, steam, or any other motive power.--Ibid. December 1.--An event displaying the extreme point to which certain impressions can be carried, took place within a few miles of Haydon Bridge. On the preceding evening, about ten o'clock, a woman of the name of Ann Laing, housekeeper with Thomas Errington, a workman under the lessees of Stublick colliery, retired to rest, nothing being perceived in her appearance denoting that she was labouring under any mental infirmity. Her master went to bed about midnight, and was shortly fast asleep. Between two and three in the morning, he was awoke by his housekeeper coming to his bed-side, and shaking him very violently by the shoulders, telling him that she could not succeed in cutting her legs off with the axe, and that he must get up and take them off with the saw. On leaving his bed he found the house in total darkness. However he contrived to arouse his nearest neighbour, who came with a lighted candle, and discovered the floor of the cottage completely deluged with blood, and the woman herself standing almost naked, with the axe in her hand greatly besmeared. On examination...
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