EPW053945 ENGLAND (1937). The Wardley Colliery, Victoria Road and Hebburn New Town, Hebburn, 1937

Lambley Crescent

Wardley Manor House

Quality Terrace

Wellington St. I was born in this street in June 1944 at number 47 which was a relatives upstairs Flat & roughly where I've put the marker pin

Crawley Avenue

Hartleyburn Avenue

Burn heads road

Allotments

St Andrew's Presbyterian Church in the Quay area of Hebburn.

Hawthorn Leslies Shipyard at the bottom of Ellison St in Hebburn

Hebburn 'C' Pit just south of Leslie's Shipyard

Hall Rd leading from the traffic lights to Hebburn's Ellison Hall

Glen St

Tennant St

Victoria Rd east

The 'Reay Gear Works' who in the late 1920s took over the old Plater's Sheds after the Newcastle Shipbuilding Co went bankrupt in 1921. The ship building company started up in 1919 & went bust 2 yrs later & the sheds became an ideal factory for Gateshead company Reay Gears.

Whites Marine factory on Prince Consort Rd.

Hebburn Park officially known as 'Carr Ellison Park'. Originally it was the garden for Hebburn Hall & the lakes were part of the garden. The lakes were created in the late 1800s possibly 1870s by building embankments to act as retainers for the water. They were NOT flooded quarries as I have a 1859 Map showing it was arable land previously. Hebburn did have old Quarries that were flooded but they were near where Campbell Park Rd is today & at the south of the old Leslies Sportsfield (Now a housing estate called Sullivan Walk)

This lake was known as 'Sandy Bottom' . The photo is from my www.oldtyneside.co.uk website

Harrison's Shipyard at Bill Quay. This little Yard has been used for boat building for hundreds of years. In the 1800s Boutland's built wooden sailing vessels here. The photo is from my free www.gatesheadeast.co.uk website

The Wardley Hotel on Brack Tce from my www.gatesheadeast.co.uk website

Cromwell Tce. Bill Quay. My photo is from my www.gatesheadeast.co.uk website. Photos of locations closer to Hebburn on this aerial photo come from my www.oldtyneside.co.uk website BOTH totally free to view.

This Co-op Store on the corner with Station Rd Bill Quay was known as 'Boldon Stores'. The photo is from my www.gatesheadeast.co.uk website.

Brack Tce in Bill Quay. The photo is from my www.gatesheadeast.co.uk website which is totally free like my other one www.oldtyneside.co.uk

St Cuthbert's Vicarage. For the health of the Vicar's it was built in the countryside well away from the Church. Close to the church on Argyle St- Ellison St corner were streets of houses plus lots of Industry & all were causing air pollution. Unlike today, every house had a coal fire that was smoky & then the fumes from the Chemical Works & the Sulpher & Copper Works chimneys all causing a health hazard. The photo is from my FREE www.oldtyneside.co.uk website

Whinney Lane. At the railway line was a crossing. It was named because there was a Geographical feature where an outcrop of Whinstone came to the surface. Why not Google 'whinstone' to learn more?

South Shields to Newcastle railway line. In the 40s & 50s Electric Trains ran on it & the electricity came from a rail between the 2 sets of tracks. If anyone touched that Live rail it would probably have killed them.

South Drive which led from Victoria Rd West down to the Bushing Co & then the South Shields to Newcastle railway lines.

This is where Hebburn Technical College was built. Photo from my www.oldtyneside.co.uk website

This land became Hebburn Council's rubbish Tip.In the late 40s into the 50s it was a massive eyesore with years & years of rubbish forming hills. Today that rubbish will still be there covered with soil & beautifully landscaped.

When I was a young man in the 50s this Lake was called 'The Island Lake' as it had a Island overgrown with bushes & small trees. Swan's & ducks nested safely on the Island as no one ever went on it apart from the odd birds egg collector.

Hebburn railway station. The photo from my www.oldtyneside.co.uk website shows the platform for going to Newcastle.

St Aloysius Church. Photo from my www.oldtyneside.co.uk website

This now derelict land in Hebburn is where the Glasgow based company called Tennant's Chemical Co set up business in the 1860s. Later the company became United Alkali. The photo is from my www.oldtyneside.co.uk website & it shows the Chemical works from the Ballast Hill area.

Deans Primrose Staiths

The Staith House Inn down on the riverside. The photo is from my www.oldtyneside.co.uk website & also my www.gatesheadeast.co.uk site

Wardley Miner's Hall

Wardley Manor House Farm

Woodgate Farm, Bill Quay known locally as Davidson's Farm

Bill Quay School

A view showing Thistley House Farm

Burn Heads Farm which is long gone. This is the only photo I've ever seen of the Farm.

Monkton Mill Farm which now has the 'Cock Crow Pub' attached to it.

This is the land where Clegwell School was built in the 1930s.

Ellison Hall Infirmary which was previously the home of the Carr Ellison family.

The Ballast Hill

The Bushing Company

Victoria Rd west

The Fever Hospital

Bluehouse Farm

This was a brick built pump house at the east edge of the First Lake. Where the suction pipe went into the lake was a favourite place for swimming. The photo is from my website www.oldtyneside.co.uk

Jones'brickworks

Leslies Sports Field

The land where Clegg Farm stood. Clegwell School was built close to this land.

The old Quarries which were unused & water filled when I was young in the 50s. The council filled them in probably late 50s because they were deep & dangerous.

Hebburn's Redhouse Farm

The Ellison family boat house on the 'Second Lake'

Old Wardley Colliery before modernisation in the late 1950s

The famous Walker Naval Yard

Pelaw Main Coal staiths

Reyrolle's with their Sportsfield infront

Tharsis Sulpher & Copper Works

Hebburn Cemetery

Hebburn's 4 man made lakes that the Ellison family had made mid to late 1800s.

The Covered Reservoir that stood on Mill Lane-Victoria Rd West junction

Primitive Methodist Chapel

Wardley Colliery School

Bill Quay Bridge

Thistley House Farm,

Wardley Quarry

First Street

Second Street

Third Street

Wardley Colliery's Reservoir Street

Reservoir