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“The coal went to Helsinki, St Petersburg, Lubeck, Ventspils and Riga... Bergen
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St Petersburg
“Although I hadn’t wanted to leave school, I grew to love my job; working with the Scandinavian boat owners and sorting the shipping of coal from the Newcastle Quayside to the Baltic sea ports. I learned about the river and the port, the different loading places. I learned about foreign parts and about coal and coke and the loading and storing and shipping of it.”
Danzig
...and the ships returned to Newcastle with timber pit props for the mines.”
“I was out and about all day on the river and docks.”
