George Stephenson, railway engineer, was born on 9th June, 1781, in Wylam, a small colliery village about eight miles from Newcastle-upon-Tyne. His father, a pitman, worked at Wylam Colliery until George was about eight years of age when the family moved to Dewley Burn Colliery where his father worked down the mine and the son earned a few pennies each day picking brass nuggets from piles of coal.
When George was about fifteen years of age, the coal had depleted at Dewley Burn and the family moved to Jolly’s Close, near Newburn. Soon afterwards, George Stephenson joined his father at the mine, working as a fireman at Newburn Colliery.
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