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1. John Buddle was know as Wallsend's Mr Coal.
2. The Tommy Mann Pit.
3. Wallsend would have looked like jungle, tropical forest, swamp and mud.
4. The layers in the rock are known as strata.
5. Following a coal seam into the hillside is known as drift mining.
6. Early miners dug Bell Pits.

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