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Original Text (Annotation: EPW053947 / 473975)
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Hebburn Park that once along with the lakes belonged to the Carr Ellison Family who owned land & pits in the town. Sir Humphrey Davy stayed at Ellison Hall & used bottles of gas from Hebburn 'B' Pit to test his invention 'The Davy Lamp'. This saftety lamp saved thousands & thousands of lives worldwide because other countries were experiencing methane gas explosions in their coal mines. '
