The Keelmen of Tyne and Wear were a group of men who worked on the keels, large boats that carried the coal from the banks of both rivers to the waiting...

Row" is a traditional Tyneside folk song evoking the life and work of the keelmen of Newcastle upon Tyne. A closely related song was first published in a...

ancestor of the Norfolk Wherry, the Humber Keel and the Tyne Keel and their Keelmen. In Ireland the Howth 17 was designed by Sir Walter Boyd in 1897, and is...

considerable time. A well-known group of workers on the river were the keelmen who handled the keels, boats that carried the coal from the riverbanks...

of the city, and beside the river, resided the close-knit community of keelmen and their families. They were so called because they worked on the keels...

the waiting colliers. A close-knit group of workers manned the Keels as 'keelmen'. In 1634 a market and yearly fair charter was granted by Bishop Thomas...

aged 75 in Caprerra on 2nd June 1882." Bell, David. Ships, Strikes and Keelmen: Glimpses of North-Eastern Social History, 2001 ISBN 1-901237-26-5 Hibbert...

Standard 1915, p. 1 References Bell, David (2001). Ships, Strikes and Keelmen. TUPS. ISBN 9781901237269. Heyriès, Hubert (2005). Les Garibaldiens de...

the century before Luddism. Irregular rises in food prices provoked the Keelmen to riot in the port of Tyne in 1710 and tin miners to steal from granaries...

hunger." Charles Wilson noted, "Spasmodic rises in food prices provoked keelmen on the Tyne to riot in 1709, tin miners to plunder granaries at Falmouth...