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This 'Pin' is the old Boathouse on the edge of the 'Second Lake' . The Ellison family who owned most of Hebburn land had these four lakes constructed in the 1800s (1870s or 80s) just like ordinary folk put a pond in their garden. They weren't water filled quarries as was wrongly said in previous books about old Hebburn. On my 1859 Map that land was farm land. The Ellison's simply had embankments built to act as dams & the natural burn gradually filled them with water. They had fish put into the lakes & even had their own boats for leisure activities inc fishing. My photo shows what remained of the Boathouse in the 50s ie wooden stumps sticking out of the water '
