On Shrove Tuesday 1633, ‘an armed and unruly multitude of young men’, numbering ‘forty at the least’, assembled at Ballast Hills in Ouseburn.
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17 March 1660
On Saturday 17 March 1660, about five hundred Newcastle keelmen ‘assembled together in a tumultuous manner’, parking their keelboats across the arches of the old Tyne Bridge ‘to stopp the passage o
26 June 1740
On 26 June 1740, a crowd of 3,000 angry townspeople, keelmen, iron workers and miners from the nearby collieries attacked and wrecked the Guild Hall in Newcastle.
21 May 1750
Thomas Spence (1750-1814) made a major contribution to revolutionary and reform movements, both in Newcastle and across Britain.
1 January 1764
High Bridge Street was the site of an independent chapel, established in 1765-6 by the friends and admirers of James Murray (1732-82), a Scottish-born Presbyterian minister who used his pulpit to a
19 October 1809 to 10 November 1809
In October 1809 keelmen below the Newcastle bridges went on strike to demand improvements in pay. Keelmen were the workers who transferred coal in keels or barges to waiting colliers.
14 October 1819
The keelmen strike of 1819 was given an extra edge as it occurred shortly after the massacre at 'Peterloo' in Manchester.
15 May 1828
On the afternoon of Thursday 15 May 1828 Newcastle’s Guildhall played host to a gathering of professionals and clergymen who advocated the gradual, rather than the immediate, abolition of West Indi
1 January 1830 to 1 January 1839
Crowley’s iron works were once the largest in Britain and its workers from the various works were collectively known as Crowley’s Crew.
1 May 1832
In May 1832 a major disturbance took place at Friars Goose. As mine workers refused to work underground, forty-two lead miners from Cumberland were brought in.