Monkton Coke Works was a

coking plant Coke is a grey, hard, and porous coal-based fuel with a high carbon content and few impurities, made by heating coal or oil in the absence of air—a destructive distillation process. It is an important industrial product, used mainly in iron ...

near

Hebburn Hebburn is a town in the metropolitan county of Tyne and Wear, England. It governed under the borough of South Tyneside; formerly governed under the county of Durham until 1974 with its own urban district from 1894 until 1974. It is on the sout ...

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History

The works were constructed in 1936, as the government's response to the

Jarrow Hunger March Jarrow ( or ) is a town in South Tyneside in the county of Tyne and Wear, England. It is east of Newcastle upon Tyne. It is situated on the south bank of the River Tyne, about from the east coast. It is home to the southern portal of the Tyn ...

in 1932. The plant closed in 1990 and was demolished in 1992. In September 2022, a book called ''CLEAN AIR'' was released on Amazon, detailing the campaign for clean air that the community living next to Monkton Coke Works led.

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- Monkton coke works slideshow.
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- Monkton coke works compilation
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- Monkton coke works Buildings and structures in the Metropolitan Borough of South Tyneside Demolished buildings and structures in England Buildings and structures demolished in 1992