EAW007892 ENGLAND (1947). The residential area at Chirton, North Shields, from the east, 1947

Appleby Park, former home of North Shields FC

Chirton West View

Tynemouth Victoria Jubilee Infirmary

Billy Mill junction

Trinity Church

Spring Gardens pub

Queen Victoria School

Alexander Scott Park

Location of the HAA Gun Battery at Howden, designation Tyne L.

Norham Road Industrial Estate

Formica

North Shields Gas Works

The Ridges Housing Estate now called The Meadowell

North Shields railway station

Site of former Preston Colliery known locally as "The Pit Heap"

Rex Cinema

Ralph Gardner School

Christ Church, Preston Road, consecrated 1668 see www.christchurchringers.org.uk

Tynemouth High School

Preston Cemetery opened c1857

The photograph is grainy - is this the ruin of Billy Mill ? The History of Northumberland, volume 8, by H. H. E. Craster, includes a reference to a 14th century mill in the hands of Tynemouth Priory. The wooden windmill was rebuilt in stone in 1760. In the 19th century steam mills at Chirton and Willington Quay made it redundant. It was demolished in September 1967.