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English: 'C' Pit at Wallsend Colliery, Northumberland, England. A metal pipe (fop, left) vents a permanent flame of methane, visible by day or (as in this illustration) night: "its sound is like the roaring of a blast furnace". The gas derived from an insulated portion of coal strata of about five acres in extent, and was carried by the pipe to the top of the head gear. In its day Wallsend colliery was one of the most productive coal mines in England, producing the best household coal, but it suffered from a series of fatal explosions.
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T.H. Hair, A Series of Views of the Collieries of Northumberland and Durham, James Hadden, London, 1844,

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Author Thomas Harrison Hair (1808-75)

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