EAW009376 ENGLAND (1947). The River Tyne at Hebburn and Walker, Hebburn, from the south-east, 1947

This land was called Tennant's fields as the Chemical Works had been there in earlier years ie mid 1800s to early 1900s

This place was called 'The Bauxite'. When they pulled out of Hebburn ,they left mounds of reddish coloured waste that seemed to get everywhere especially when it was wet. (Bauxite is aluminium ore)

Here is a photo from my www.oldtyneside.co.uk website not long before my class left school 1959

This was Prince Consort Rd nursery

This was the Council Yard. The prefab buildings were where our school meals were cooked and then transported to the various schools. The Yard was bombed in WW2 and numerous people were killed

Martins Bank, later it became Barclays. Today it is a Funeral Home so still being used. It stands on the corner of Argyle St/Prince Consort Rd junction.

Lloyds Bank

This was Tyne View Tce previously owned by the Tennant's Chemical Co, and now rented out to a few families one of them being my relatives called McNeill

This was a small Portland Cement Works

This was Prince Consort Rd, but originally it had been called James St

Allotments

Bede Buildings which were alongside Waggonway Rd which locals called the low road

Hebburn Palmer Ship yard

This was the 'Bone Yard' at the riverside at Walker. Horrible smells from it drifted all over depending in the wind direction. Hebburn people knew the smell well. Beside it is Walker Ferry Landing.

Swan Hunter's famous ship building yard where the 'Mauretania' was build and massive 250,000 ton Super Tankers in the 60s and 70s. Pics on my website www.oldtyneside.co.uk

Wallsend Ferry Landing where you could get a Ferry across to Hebburn or upriver to Walker.

Robert Frazer's factory

The Wailes Dove Bitumastic Company, alongside Hedgeley Rd on one side and the railway lines on the other

Makendon St

Bygate St which had a Nursery School at the end of the street.

Blindburn St

This part of the Power Station became the 'Powerhouse Club' and the work done reorganising the building was done with free labour by the unemployed. It became a meeting place for young people in Hebburn and neighbouring towns. Saturday night dances were very popular .

This was a Power Station for producing electricity. It must have been derelict when the photo was taken in 1947.

This was a long wooden building alongside the back lane wall. In the 1950s it was used by a lady called Jessie Ives to hold her Dance classes. It was just inside the entrance gate to the Power Station.

Rede Ave . The photo from my www.oldtyneside.co.uk website shows Rede Ave which was a street just for pedestrians

Carter Ave. This was like Rede Ave & that is it was a street for pedestrians only. Photo is from my www.oldtyneside.co.uk site

Tweed St. Photo from my www.oldtyneside.co.uk website

Aln St corner with Whickham Rd. The photo shows the Masonic Hall on the corner. It is from my www.oldtyneside.co.uk site

Mons Avenue. As a child in the 50s I remember being at my grandmother Rodgers's house at 13 Mons Ave quite a lot. The photo is from my www.oldtyneside.co.uk website

Verdun Ave.

Photo taken at the end of Whickham Rd. The light coloured houses are in Jutland Ave. Photo from my www.oldtyneside.co.uk website

Vimmy Ave

Jutland Avenue

This was a really rough Football Pitch in the 1950s & our school often used it as we didn't have our own pitch.

The old Colliery Houses that once stood here eg Wood St, Elm St, Ash St,Oak St & Fir St have all been demolished & these modern Prefabricated houses put in their place. Known locally as the Prefabs.

Harvey St

Arthur St

Frederick St

The 'Pyrotenax' factory famous for making copper sheathed electric cables.

Swindon St

Usway St

Dumhope St

Campbell St

Holystone St

St Aloysius Infant School which opened about 1927-28. My mother, myself & my sister all went there. This little photo from my website shows the infants in 1944.

This is where the 'Wooden Bridge' was in later years. I don't know how it isn't on this aerial view. It connected Campbell St with Campbell Park Rd. The pic is from my www.oldtyneside.co.uk website. Why not take a look at it as it is free.

Albert St. The location Pin I added is outside the cinema called the 'Gem' . This street ran from Argyle to Lyon St. My modern photo was taken outside where the Gem once was. That is the old 'Albert Hotel' still there today but renamed 'Wardles'. The Hotel opened about 1882. The Bus Stop which can be seen is on Lyon St.

Bewick St which ran from Argyle St down hill to Lyon St. The photo is from my www.oldtyneside.co.uk website & it shows Patricia Firth on her bike in Bewick St beside her parent's shop on the corner of Bewick/William St.

Philip St. My photo shows Mrs Porter outside her Philip St home.

Edmund St. My photo shows Mrs Laverick's shop on Edmund St - Lyon St corner. Why not check out my free www.oldtyneside.co.uk website?

Dunston St. The photo is from my www.oldtyneside.co.uk website & shows Joan Thomas in Dunston street with Palmers Ship Repairing yard in the distance.

Hedley St. The photo is from my website www.oldtyneside.co.uk & it is Sharpe's Shop at 35 Hedley St.

McIntyre St

Whiteburn St

Hedgeley Rd which runs from Station Rd to Black road

The Police Station with the attached Courts on Argyle St.

The old Hebburn Urban District Council Offices on Albert St/Argyle St corner

This little building was the Mortuary

The old Post Office on Ellison St opposite Carr St

Carr St

Lyon St

Hawthorn Leslies Ship Yard

St Andrew's Presbyterian Church. My Dunn family attended this church. They were from Old Kilpatrick in Scotland & came to live in Hebburn about 1913.

McIntyre St

Ellison St,

Caledonian St

Tyne St

The 'Bede Metal Company' between Wagonway Rd & the river Tyne

Hebburn 'Palmers' ship repairing yard

Hebburn Station

The 'Station Hotel' known as 'Roys' on the corner of Glen St & Station Rd.

The 'Reay Gearworks' which started off in the sheds that the Newcastle Shipbuilding erected when they started ship building in 1919. Unfortunately times were hard & they went bust in 1921. By the end of the 1920s Reay Gearworks acquired the sheds as their factory. Later it became Geo Angus & Co gear works then later RW Transmissions. The factory finally closed mid 70s & the land is now a housing estate called Tyne View.

St Aloysius Church

The 'Theatre Royal' in Lyon St Hebburn that opened in 1897 & burned down in Oct 1950. Arthur Jefferson who was Stan Laurel's father managed the theatre at one time. Stan was half of the famous 'Laurel & Hardy' comedy duo.

The Ballast Hill by the riverside

The 'Quay Board School'

The 'Gem' Cinema on Albert St-William St corner. On the other corner of William St was 'The Albert' hotel.

The Co-operative Store Hall on Lyon St

Bonnacord St which were houses adjacent to the Ballast Hill & built to house Leslie's Shipyard workers families.

The derelict Hebburn 'C' Pit before the land became Hawthorn Leslies stockyard,

'White's Marine' factory on Prince Consort Rd

St Cuthbert's Church on Argyle St - Ellison St corner. The pre war photo is from my www.oldtyneside.co.uk website