EAW033932 ENGLAND (1950). The Reyrolle Electrical Engineering Works and environs, Hebburn, 1950. This image was marked by Aerofilms Ltd for photo editing.
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| Pennawd | [EAW033932] The Reyrolle Electrical Engineering Works and environs, Hebburn, 1950. This image was marked by Aerofilms Ltd for photo editing. |
| Cyfeirnod | EAW033932 |
| Dyddiad | 19-October-1950 |
| Dolen | |
| Enw lle | HEBBURN |
| Plwyf | |
| Ardal | |
| Gwlad | ENGLAND |
| Dwyreiniad / Gogleddiad | 430426, 563865 |
| Hydred / Lledred | -1.5246855003288, 54.968401254517 |
| Cyfeirnod Grid Cenedlaethol | NZ304639 |
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 This Prefab building held three St Aloysius Classrooms for girls approaching leaving school at 14/15 |
 plumduff992 |
Tuesday 4th of June 2024 07:57:37 PM |
| Hebburn Cemetery's two little chapels. One was for Catholics and one was for Protestants. Even in death the different religions were kept apart because the Graves for the Catholics had to be in the RC section and graves for Protestants in the C of E section. |
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Saturday 22nd of October 2016 04:15:18 PM |
| This land was used as the rubbish dump for a number of years. Known as 'the Tips'. |
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Saturday 22nd of October 2016 04:09:43 PM |
| This rough road was a continuation of Prince Consort Rd and led to the Rubbish dump in the 40s and 50s. Hebburn UDC Bin Waggons drove back and forth and the rubbish will still be there today as it was covered over with soil and landscaped. |
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Saturday 22nd of October 2016 04:08:06 PM |
| Rows of coal wagons. The coal was brought to the Staiths where the coal was loaded into the colliers. It came down from Springwell using gravity but controlled by a wire rope. Once emptied they'd be hauled back up. |
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Saturday 22nd of October 2016 04:01:40 PM |
| Buchanan St |
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Saturday 22nd of October 2016 03:56:06 PM |
| St Rollox St |
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Saturday 22nd of October 2016 03:53:40 PM |
| Shamrock St |
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Saturday 22nd of October 2016 03:52:40 PM |
| Rose St |
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Saturday 22nd of October 2016 03:50:53 PM |
| Thistle St |
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Saturday 22nd of October 2016 03:48:40 PM |
| John St |
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Saturday 22nd of October 2016 03:47:23 PM |
| Charles St |
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Saturday 22nd of October 2016 03:46:29 PM |
| The Gospel Hall on Victoria Rd west just yards west of the Station Rd junction traffic lights |
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Saturday 22nd of October 2016 03:43:27 PM |
| I remember this as Rounthwaites Garage and Petrol Station. Later it became Wards Garage and petrol station. |
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Saturday 22nd of October 2016 03:40:18 PM |
| North Farm Rd. The bare land on the corner is where the owners of the Theatre which had just burned down in Oct 1950 built their replacement and called it 'The Rex' cinema. |
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Saturday 22nd of October 2016 03:37:16 PM |
| Beanley Ave |
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Saturday 22nd of October 2016 03:33:19 PM |
| Lambley Cres |
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Saturday 22nd of October 2016 03:32:14 PM |
| East View |
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Saturday 22nd of October 2016 03:31:10 PM |
| Burn Heads Road |
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Saturday 22nd of October 2016 03:30:16 PM |
| Hospital Drive, a short drive leading to the Fever Hospital |
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Saturday 22nd of October 2016 03:29:16 PM |
| St Cuthbert's school which was named 'Hedley Schools' after the Vicar and opened 1882. It is still in use today after some modernising work. Photos on my website www.oldtyneside.co.uk |
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Saturday 22nd of October 2016 03:22:10 PM |
| The modern coal Staiths which the Queen's mother opened in the 1930s.Photos on my website www.oldtyneside.co.uk |
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Saturday 22nd of October 2016 03:18:26 PM |
| Bede Metal Works |
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Saturday 22nd of October 2016 03:16:01 PM |
| The Foster-Blackett Lead Works. |
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Saturday 22nd of October 2016 03:11:17 PM |
| Leslies Canteen. pics of it on my website www.oldtyneside.co.uk |
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Saturday 22nd of October 2016 03:07:38 PM |
| The Ellison Arms Hotel which became the 'Banks of the Tyne' . Photos of t on my website www.oldtyneside.co.uk |
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Saturday 22nd of October 2016 03:05:57 PM |
| This building on Bonnacord St was the Mid Tyne Ferries ticket office in the 50s when the Landing stage was straight down from it.
I don't know if it was their office when the landing stage was next to Hawthorn Leslies wall as on the aerial image |
N Dunn |
Saturday 22nd of October 2016 03:02:55 PM |
| Hebburn's Mid Tyne Ferries landing. Passengers could get to Wallsend or Walker from here. A year or two later the floating landing was moved yards up stream just down from the property on Bonnacord St |
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Saturday 22nd of October 2016 02:58:33 PM |
| Ann St. Note the missing houses on the left. They were destroyed 9yrs earlier by a German bomb. The houses were never rebuilt and the gap can still be seen today. |
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Saturday 22nd of October 2016 02:54:51 PM |
| Carr St which is slowly being demolished. The street was once the Quay area's main shopping street. Photos of it are on my free website www.oldtyneside.co.uk |
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Saturday 22nd of October 2016 02:52:18 PM |
| Martin's Bank which later became Barclays. Today it is a Funeral Home. |
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Saturday 22nd of October 2016 02:49:56 PM |
| Auckland Rd |
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Saturday 22nd of October 2016 11:56:07 AM |
| Arthur St |
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Saturday 22nd of October 2016 11:54:58 AM |
| Harvey St |
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Saturday 22nd of October 2016 11:53:45 AM |
| Craddock Ave |
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Saturday 22nd of October 2016 11:49:51 AM |
| The Prefabs |
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Saturday 22nd of October 2016 11:48:40 AM |
| Palmers Offices. |
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Saturday 22nd of October 2016 11:46:43 AM |
| Railway Tce which stood where Lyon St/Waggonway Rd met |
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Saturday 22nd of October 2016 11:45:49 AM |
| The Caledonian Hotel on Lyon St/Tyne St corner. Photos of it are on my www.oldtyeside.co.uk website |
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Saturday 22nd of October 2016 11:43:24 AM |
| Cuthbert St, a long street that ran from Prince Consort Rd to McIntyre St. |
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Saturday 22nd of October 2016 11:41:01 AM |
| The derelict Theatre Royal which burned down Oct 7th 1950. It was sandwiched between Lyon St and Carr St. Next door on Prince Consort Rd corner was the Ellison House Hotel which was badly damaged with the fire. The Theatre was never rebuilt and the Rex Cinema on Victoria Rd was its replacement by the owners the Dawes brothers. The Ellison House Hotel reopened for a short time before it was demolished. |
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Saturday 22nd of October 2016 11:38:32 AM |
| White's Marine offices which stood alongside Prince Consort Rd. Just behind the offices is the factory. |
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Saturday 22nd of October 2016 11:30:20 AM |
| St Aloysius Infant School which opened in 1928. Photos on my www.oldtyneside.co.uk website |
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Saturday 22nd of October 2016 11:27:44 AM |
| Campbell St. At the south end of the street was the 'wooden bridge' across the electrified South Shields to Newcastle railway line. |
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Saturday 22nd of October 2016 11:25:21 AM |
| This was the Council Yard which not many years earlier was hit by a German Bomb killing quite a few workers. |
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Saturday 22nd of October 2016 11:21:13 AM |
| Hedgeley Road which started at Station Rd and ended at Black Rd. The field behind the marker was the Pyrotenax football pitch. When I was at St Aloysius school in the 1950s we often used it for football because we had no field to play on. Today a housing estate called the Cornfields stands on the land |
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Saturday 22nd of October 2016 11:19:02 AM |
| Jutland Avenue, a long avenue stretching from Victoria Rd East to Campbell Park Rd. |
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Saturday 22nd of October 2016 11:14:57 AM |
| Mons Ave. |
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Saturday 22nd of October 2016 11:12:07 AM |
| Masonic Hall on Aln St/Whickham Rd corner |
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Saturday 22nd of October 2016 11:09:46 AM |
| The Newtown School which was sandwiched between Station Rd and Aln St. |
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Saturday 22nd of October 2016 11:08:31 AM |
| A travelling fun fair set up on the spare land. |
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Saturday 22nd of October 2016 11:04:45 AM |
| Alfred St |
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Saturday 22nd of October 2016 11:00:50 AM |
| North Drive which runs alongside the Reyrolles Sportsfield |
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Saturday 22nd of October 2016 10:59:16 AM |
| Canning St which runs from St John's Ave to Quarry road. It passes the ends of Hall Rd & Park rd |
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Saturday 22nd of October 2016 10:57:32 AM |
| Victoria Rd West |
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Monday 3rd of October 2016 11:35:34 AM |
| Reyrolle's sports field. |
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Monday 3rd of October 2016 11:33:37 AM |
| This was the Nursery School at the top of Prince Consort Rd opposite Argyle St junction. |
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Monday 3rd of October 2016 11:32:34 AM |
| An abandoned industrial reservoir . Us kids used to go on it on an old raft in the 50s. It wasn't very deep unlike the Copperworks reservoir further along the riverside. |
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Monday 3rd of October 2016 11:30:40 AM |
| Whinny Lane. it was given that name because of an outcrop of Whinstone in that area. |
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Tuesday 31st of March 2015 02:52:31 PM |
| Hebburn Railway Station |
Stewart |
Saturday 5th of July 2014 01:07:32 PM |
| Riverside Cottages (Staithes Houses) |
Stewart |
Saturday 5th of July 2014 01:05:38 PM |
| The Granary |
Stewart |
Saturday 5th of July 2014 01:04:10 PM |
| This area was known locally as 'The Bauxite'. Not a lot is recorded about this 'British Aluminium Co' apart from it produced Aluminium Hydroxide from the ore known as 'Bauxite'. A lot of waste known as red mud was a by-product of the process & it was dumped on the site producing hillocks/mounds of this red mud. It was fenced off to keep people off it. |
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Sunday 4th of May 2014 10:16:09 AM |
| The Fever Hospital |
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Thursday 1st of May 2014 03:17:04 PM |
| Just after this aerial photo was taken, this field was divided into Allotments. I know because in the late 50s some frriends & I kept pigeons in one allotment. The lazy birds often flew straight onto Reyrolles factory roof across the lines. |
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Thursday 1st of May 2014 03:16:37 PM |
| Tyne View Tce once owned by Tennant's Chemical Co & used by it's Chemists /Management. When the Company closed down the properties were let out. My McNeill relatives rented one part of Tyne View from the 1930s to the 50s when it was Demolished. |
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Thursday 1st of May 2014 03:14:02 PM |
| This empty land was where Tennant's Chemical Works once was. |
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Thursday 1st of May 2014 03:11:38 PM |
| This building was the Platers Sheds for Newcastle Shipbuilding Company who started in 1919 but went bust in 1921. Late 1920s it became the Reay Gear Works. Later it was bought by Geo Angus and remained as a gear manufacturer. Later RW Transmissions took it over & in the mid 70s it closed forever. Today it is a Housing Estate |
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Thursday 1st of May 2014 03:10:38 PM |
| Prince Consort Rd, formerly James St |
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Thursday 1st of May 2014 03:07:47 PM |
| Victoria Rd main entrance to Hebburn Cemetery |
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Thursday 1st of May 2014 03:06:21 PM |
| The Reservoir left derelict & unfenced after Tharsis moved from Hebburn. A few people were drowned in that reservoir as it was deep & had steeply sloping sides. |
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Thursday 1st of May 2014 03:05:23 PM |
| This is the derelict Tharsis Sulpher & Copper Works after the company left Hebburn. |
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Thursday 1st of May 2014 03:02:59 PM |
| The Clinic on Argyle St |
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Thursday 1st of May 2014 03:01:44 PM |
| Lloyds Bank opposite St Aloysius Church garden |
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Thursday 1st of May 2014 03:01:00 PM |
| This Prefab building held three St Aloysius Classrooms for boys approaching leaving school at 14/15 |
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Thursday 1st of May 2014 03:00:17 PM |
| Simpson's Hostel on High Lane Row |
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Thursday 1st of May 2014 02:58:55 PM |
| Charles St. The long gap of waste land between the houses was because the Luftwaffe bombs hit houses that were there previously |
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Thursday 1st of May 2014 02:57:36 PM |
| Bonnacord St at the bottom of Ellison St |
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Thursday 1st of May 2014 02:55:07 PM |
| Glen St |
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Thursday 1st of May 2014 02:54:18 PM |
| Tennant St |
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Thursday 1st of May 2014 02:53:53 PM |
| The Pyrotenax Factory where they made copper clad cable which was fireproof. |
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Thursday 1st of May 2014 02:53:22 PM |
| The Bitumastic Factory between Hedgeley Rd & the rail lines |
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Thursday 1st of May 2014 02:51:58 PM |
| The County Hotel |
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Thursday 1st of May 2014 02:51:02 PM |
| Reyrolle's Foctories were split by a railway line. This is Reyrolle's bottom works |
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Thursday 1st of May 2014 02:50:13 PM |
| Reyrolle's Newtown Works |
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Thursday 1st of May 2014 02:48:56 PM |
| Victoria Rd West |
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Thursday 1st of May 2014 02:48:25 PM |
| South Drive |
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Thursday 1st of May 2014 02:47:57 PM |
| The Bushing Company |
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Thursday 1st of May 2014 02:47:38 PM |
| The Powerhouse which was a Youth Club in the 40s through to the 60s. It got its name because originally it was a small Electricity Generating Power Station |
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Saturday 26th of April 2014 10:13:05 AM |
| The remains of Hebburn 'A' Pit |
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Saturday 26th of April 2014 10:10:19 AM |
| Hebburn Palmers Ship repair yard/docks |
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Saturday 26th of April 2014 10:08:53 AM |
| Hawthorn Leslies Ship Building Yard |
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Saturday 26th of April 2014 10:07:46 AM |
| Hebburn had three Pits. This is the remains of 'C' Pit . It became part of Hawthorn Leslies soon after this photo & was used for steel stockholding. The other Pits were 'A' Pit close to Auckland Rd & 'B' Pit close to St Oswald's area |
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Saturday 26th of April 2014 10:06:52 AM |
| Hebburn Quay Board School |
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Saturday 26th of April 2014 10:03:33 AM |
| The Co-op Store Hall with its shops below on Lyon St/Albert St corner |
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Saturday 26th of April 2014 10:02:50 AM |
| The Ballast Hill |
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Saturday 26th of April 2014 10:01:47 AM |
| Robert Frazer & Sons, Steel Stockholders |
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Saturday 26th of April 2014 10:01:03 AM |
| Hebburn Police Station on Argyle St. The Courtroom was next door |
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Saturday 26th of April 2014 09:59:27 AM |
| St Aloysius RC Church |
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Saturday 26th of April 2014 09:58:15 AM |
| St Cuthbert's Church on the corner of Ellison St & Argyle St |
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Saturday 26th of April 2014 09:57:31 AM |
| St Andrew's Presbyterian Church off Ellison St |
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Saturday 26th of April 2014 09:56:34 AM |