This site will require an area equivalent to three or four football pitches on land, with a huge jetty jutting into the centre of the river, loading barges to transport excavated spoil on every tide for seven years.

He began to earn money, carrying parcels, loading barges... anything to earn some money.

The mouth of the Siston Brook where it joins the Avon was turned into a wharf in the eighteenth century, providing a space for loading barges with coal for nearby collieries.

Sometime after 1840 Samuel Jackson built a narrow gauge tramroad worked by horses from his Gin Pit Colliery to Marsland Green where he had cranes and tipplers to load barges at a wharf on the canal.

However, the term staithe may also be used to refer only to loading chutes or ramps used for bulk commodities like coal in loading ships and barges.

He's loading barges with armsmen.

Thomas Kymer, owner of many mining and other operations in the area established several loading places and primitive trackways to load barges on the Gwendraeth Fawr.

The brick-built structure has nine openings on the ground floor, which once held chutes for loading barges, and two loading doors on the first floor.

After Fresh Kills closes at the beginning of 2002, the city plans to continue to use the so-called marine transfer stations to load barges with garbage for shipment to giant new stations for what the industry refers to as containerization - putting garbage into containers for shipment by rail or barge.

Stockley Park was built upon a tip that was used by Londoners who would load barges on the canal and come to tip the industrial and private waste from West London.