Crossword-Solution: WALLSEND 8 letters, 2 clues 🏆 scrabble score: 12

But a cashier in a London bank has very little time to play any part in life's history, except that quiet _rôle_ which seems chiefly to consist in locking and unlocking iron safes, peering furtively into mysterious ledgers, and shovelling about new sovereigns as coolly as if they were Wallsend or Clay-Cross coals.

London was formerly supplied from the pits east of Tyne Bridge, where is the famous Wallsend Colliery, which gave the name to the best coal.

There is now no Wallsend coal, and the principal part of the present so-called coal comes from the Wear, but the seam which supplied that famous pit is continued into Durham, and that seam, or its equivalent, sends a million or two of tons every year into London.

Emblem, "now, like nearly all my friends, beneath the sod, used to say that a good marriage was a happy blending of the finest Wallsend with the most delicate Silkstone.

Now, of course a man may make a fire-place as big as Soyer's great range at Crockford's--poor dear Crocky's, before it was reformed--and he may burn a sack of coals at a time in it; and he may have one of these in each apartment and lobby of his house--and a pretty warm berth he will then have of it; but it would be no thanks to his architect that he should thus be forced to encourage his purveyor of the best Wallsend.