DUNSTON STAITHS

The staiths were 526 metres long (1725 feet) and 20 metres (66 feet) high above high water. They handled on average 140,000 tons of coal a week in the 1920s but only 3000 a week in the 1970s. Dunston staiths closed on 4 March 1980.

The Staiths, no longer in use, is now a Grade II listed building and reputedly the largest wooden structure in Europe.