EPW020548 ENGLAND (1928). The Wearmouth Colliery, Sunderland, 1928

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Title [EPW020548] The Wearmouth Colliery, Sunderland, 1928
Reference EPW020548
Date March-1928
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Place name SUNDERLAND
Parish
District
Country ENGLAND
Easting / Northing 439273, 557896
Longitude / Latitude -1.3873018357874, 54.91414048086
National Grid Reference NZ393579

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Hood Street Methodist Church - built 1867, closed 1988, destroyed by arson 1991. The congregation began as part of the United Methodist Free Church and met in the colliery offices. The colliery owner, who Anglican, was the largest contributor to the cost of the building and his wife laid the foundation stone. During the Second World War, a nearby bomb caused structural damage to the church. At first this was thought to be only mild damage, but problems with the building grew worse leading to its eventual closure. The surrounding streets were demolished around 1978, but the church remained in the midst of the new replacement council housing for another decade. The church was most well known for its football team who won a national church cup in 1957 and 1960. They were champions of the Wearside Combination League in 1960 and its predecessor in 1923 and 1938. Records of Sunderland AFC's time at their nearby Newcastle Road ground say that they prefered to attack towards Hood Street. This would be a very random location to highlight if it wasn't for the church's reputation for its football team.

DAI
Sunday 28th of March 2021 04:14:48 PM

MB
Friday 28th of September 2012 04:40:43 PM
Monkwearmouth Saw Mills

MB
Friday 28th of September 2012 04:39:23 PM
Electric tramway runs on this road

MB
Friday 28th of September 2012 04:38:42 PM
Probable engine house

MB
Friday 28th of September 2012 04:37:12 PM
Southwick Road

MB
Friday 28th of September 2012 04:36:17 PM
Collier taking on coal

MB
Friday 28th of September 2012 04:34:35 PM
Known as Wearmouth Staiths

MB
Friday 28th of September 2012 04:33:56 PM
Facility for loading railway wagons

MB
Friday 28th of September 2012 04:32:05 PM
Indicated as NER [North Eastern Railway?] stables on 1919 map

MB
Friday 28th of September 2012 04:30:49 PM
And as LNER stables on the 1941 1:2500 OS edition; so yes, they belonged to the railway. Just along from the Monkwearmouth Goods station.

Katy Whitaker
Friday 26th of July 2013 11:30:39 AM
Disused brickworks

MB
Friday 28th of September 2012 04:28:23 PM
Pithead winding gear

MB
Friday 28th of September 2012 04:27:18 PM

Skinhead68
Friday 8th of July 2016 11:19:22 PM
Pithead winding gear

MB
Friday 28th of September 2012 04:26:42 PM

Skinhead68
Friday 8th of July 2016 11:17:27 PM

MB
Friday 28th of September 2012 04:25:48 PM
Stobart Street

MB
Friday 28th of September 2012 04:25:12 PM
Wreath Quay Road

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Friday 28th of September 2012 04:24:26 PM

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Friday 28th of September 2012 04:22:32 PM

MB
Friday 28th of September 2012 04:20:24 PM
My old house, 107 Wayman Street!!

MalcolmGH
Tuesday 24th of July 2012 10:18:21 PM
The listed buildings that are still left on Sheepfolds Industrial Estate.

MalcolmGH
Tuesday 24th of July 2012 10:17:35 PM
The site of Grange Park school.

MalcolmGH
Tuesday 24th of July 2012 10:16:41 PM
The old Monkwearmouth Central School at the Wheatsheaf, now small workshops.

MalcolmGH
Tuesday 24th of July 2012 10:15:54 PM