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Hebburn had a massive Ballast Hill at the riverside just yards upriver from the bottom of Ellison st when I was young in the 1940s-50s but it was removed quite a few years ago & is now a Housing Estate. Click the LINK to read Patrick Brennan's very interesting story about the body in the ballast hill. Well worth reading.