Date: 13/07/2020

Reputedly Europe's largest timber structure, is there a future for Dunston Staiths? Dunston Staiths is a pier-like runway that was used to tip countless millions of tons of coal into the cargo holds of the huge ships on the River Tyne below. There used to be 30 such edifices along the river in the days when the north east of England supplied coal to the world. Today it is a poignant symbol of the heavy industry that once sustained the north east of England - the sole survivor of a bygone age.

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A symbol of the past fighting for its future

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Reputedly Europe's largest timber structure, is there a future for Dunston Staiths?