EAW022497 ENGLAND (1949). Robert Bowran and Co Ltd Green Lane Paint Works, Pelaw, 1949. This image was marked by Aerofilms Ltd for photo editing.

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Details

Title [EAW022497] Robert Bowran and Co Ltd Green Lane Paint Works, Pelaw, 1949. This image was marked by Aerofilms Ltd for photo editing.
Reference EAW022497
Date 20-April-1949
Link
Place name PELAW
Parish
District
Country ENGLAND
Easting / Northing 429245, 561986
Longitude / Latitude -1.5433259522751, 54.951585394951
National Grid Reference NZ292620

Pins

You can see the empty spaces where the old streets used to be after demolishion. There was a Reservoir St close to reservoir then a Third St,a Second St,and a First St ending beside Wardley Lane that went over the Pelaw to Sunderland railway bridge to Bill Quay bridge.

N Dunn
Saturday 12th of March 2022 05:40:00 PM
This was Wardley Village's reservoir, and as you can see very close to it is the Methodist Chapel & Infant School

N Dunn
Saturday 12th of March 2022 05:34:57 PM
Wardley's original Colliery which a few years later was modernised with new Offices, Canteen,Medical Centre, Locker rooms, Shower blocks, Lamp rooms etc etc. Underground a 2000 yard roadway with rail lines was created to go to Follonsby and then onto Usworth Colliery

N Dunn
Saturday 12th of March 2022 05:32:59 PM
Electrified third rail track for the Newcastle to South Shields trains.

John Wass
Tuesday 27th of January 2015 09:37:22 PM
Air raid shelters.

John Wass
Tuesday 27th of January 2015 09:34:58 PM