It is an early weighbridge house and coal merchant's office dating to around 1840.

She was the only one of her sort, built to the order of a wealthy young coal merchant just after the war.

He was also in business for a time as a coal merchant.

The station had a depot and goods yard for coal merchants.

He was a coal merchant and a militia officer before the war.

Ward became a coal merchant as his father had been before him.

All the while the coal merchant looked on, smiling.

It is said that his father was a coal merchant, and that he ran away from home while at school.

In 1884 he set up his own business as a coal merchant.

The station building still stands and is in use as a coal merchant's depot.