EAW010676 ENGLAND (1947). Shipyards on the River Tyne, Wallsend and environs, Hebburn, from the south-east, 1947. This image was marked by Aerofilms Ltd for photo editing.

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Title [EAW010676] Shipyards on the River Tyne, Wallsend and environs, Hebburn, from the south-east, 1947. This image was marked by Aerofilms Ltd for photo editing.
Reference EAW010676
Date 10-September-1947
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Place name HEBBURN
Parish
District
Country ENGLAND
Easting / Northing 430227, 564841
Longitude / Latitude -1.52769123646, 54.977184630614
National Grid Reference NZ302648

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Probable site of the 2ndWW HAA Gun Battery at Wallsend, designation number Tyne M/- (GDA Tyne).

redmist
Thursday 24th of October 2019 10:17:52 AM
2ndWW Barrage Balloon operating site,

redmist
Thursday 24th of October 2019 10:15:15 AM
Location of 2ndWW HAA Gun Battery at Longbenton, designation number Tyne K (GDA Tyne). The Gun Pits can just be made out to the right of the marker while the admin/accommodation buildings are to the left.

redmist
Wednesday 23rd of October 2019 07:41:19 PM
Site of the Gun Pits for the HAA Gun Battery at Walker, designation number Tyne N (GDA Tyne).

redmist
Monday 21st of October 2019 11:34:30 PM
Site of the Quarry Pit (1700's)

Rob McGinley
Monday 1st of April 2019 08:55:47 PM
Site of the 1700's Wake Pit

Rob McGinley
Monday 1st of April 2019 08:54:02 PM
Site of Bigges Main coal mine

Rob McGinley
Friday 26th of January 2018 08:02:37 AM
Site of Wallsend D pit (the West pit)

Rob McGinley
Friday 26th of January 2018 08:00:34 AM
Site of the Billy pit

Rob McGinley
Friday 26th of January 2018 07:59:51 AM
Site of the George pit

Rob McGinley
Friday 26th of January 2018 07:59:04 AM
Site of the Bewick pit

Rob McGinley
Friday 26th of January 2018 07:58:00 AM
This was a cheap Doss House where very poor people could have a night under cover . There wer no beds and they had to sleep standing up hanging over a rope. This is where the term I could sleep on a clothes line came from. Here is a pic to show its true.

N Dunn
Thursday 30th of November 2017 02:53:56 PM
The Caledonian Hotel on Lyon St still in use today in 2016.

N Dunn
Saturday 10th of December 2016 04:19:29 PM
Whites Marine offices and main gate alongside Prince Consort Rd. My mother was born 1922 and she told me that times were hard and sometimes she'd stand outside Whites at 'knocking off time' hoping for uneaten 'bait' (sandwiches) off the workmen.

N Dunn
Sunday 16th of October 2016 11:43:05 AM
As a young girl in the late 1920s early 1930s my mother (born 1922) lived here at 2 Cuthbert St. It was upstairs and above the Relief Office which was similar to the Dole. Once a week the out of work men would form a long queue in the back yard and out into the lane. As the entrance to the upstairs was by an outside wooden staircase, my Gran never went out those days. She was a very shy lady and didn't like having to wind her way past all those men.

N Dunn
Sunday 16th of October 2016 11:36:26 AM
The Commercial Hotel on Lyon St/Ellison St corner.

N Dunn
Sunday 16th of October 2016 11:27:17 AM
The Albert Hotel built 1882 after Queen Victoria's husband. It was on Albert St/William St corner. It was renamed 'Wardles' in later times.

N Dunn
Sunday 16th of October 2016 11:24:26 AM
This was the General Post Office on Ellison St.

N Dunn
Sunday 16th of October 2016 11:21:48 AM
Lamport St. Not many house were in this street. On one side was the wall alongside the Ballast Hill. Mostly just gable ends were in this street. It was also an access road to the Gear Works .

N Dunn
Sunday 16th of October 2016 11:19:13 AM

N Dunn
Sunday 16th of October 2016 11:16:18 AM

N Dunn
Sunday 16th of October 2016 11:15:25 AM

N Dunn
Sunday 16th of October 2016 11:14:06 AM
William St another long street that ran from Prince Consort back lane to Dunston St crossing numerous other streets.

N Dunn
Sunday 16th of October 2016 11:13:02 AM
Cuthbert St which was a long street. It ran from Prince Consort Rd and ended at McIntyre St crossing over Bewick St, Albert St, Ellison St, Tyne St, Caledonian St.

N Dunn
Sunday 16th of October 2016 11:09:20 AM
Robert Frazer & Co steel stockholders

N Dunn
Sunday 16th of October 2016 11:05:10 AM
Railway Terrace which was roughly where Lyon St ended and Waggonway Rd started (opposite the Quay Board School)

N Dunn
Sunday 16th of October 2016 11:03:58 AM
Wailes Dove Bitumastic factory sandwiched between Hedgeley Road and the South Shields to Newcastle railway lines

N Dunn
Sunday 16th of October 2016 11:01:30 AM
Tennant St which was a main shopping street in Hebburn Newtown.The street was named because Charles Tennant brought his Chemical Works to Hebburn hence we also had Charles St and St Rollox St. His main works were in the St Rollox area of Glasgow.

N Dunn
Sunday 16th of October 2016 10:56:15 AM
Hebburn Urban District Council Offices on Argyle St/ Albert St corner. Photo of it on my www.oldtyneside.co.uk website

N Dunn
Sunday 16th of October 2016 10:51:43 AM
Carr St which had been Hebburn Quay area's main shopping street in earlier times. It ran from Prince Consort Rd to Ellison St. Photo from my free www.oldtyneside.co.uk website

N Dunn
Sunday 16th of October 2016 10:49:30 AM
Edward St which previously had been Colling St

N Dunn
Sunday 16th of October 2016 10:38:42 AM

N Dunn
Sunday 16th of October 2016 10:37:34 AM
The Ellison House Hotel on Lyon St/ Prince Consort Rd corner. It was badly damaged when the Theatre next door was burned down in October 1950. It was later reopened but not for long due to redevelopment of the area..

N Dunn
Sunday 16th of October 2016 10:34:55 AM
This was the Council Yard which was bombed during WW2 and quite a number of men were killed.

N Dunn
Sunday 16th of October 2016 10:30:11 AM
Hedley Schools which were opened in 1882 and are still being used today in 2016 as a church hall.

N Dunn
Sunday 16th of October 2016 10:28:26 AM
Bewick St which led from Argyle St down to Lyon St. It cut across Cuthbert and William st.

N Dunn
Sunday 16th of October 2016 10:25:19 AM
St Cuthberts Church sandwiched between Argyle St and Cuthbert St.

N Dunn
Sunday 16th of October 2016 10:22:47 AM

N Dunn
Sunday 16th of October 2016 10:20:55 AM
This gap in the Ann St houses is where a German bomb hit a few years earlier. The gap was never built on and is still there today.

N Dunn
Sunday 16th of October 2016 10:19:44 AM
Prince Consort Rd Nursery School

N Dunn
Sunday 16th of October 2016 10:16:52 AM
Williamson & Corder plant known as 'The Bone Yard'. When the wind blew towards Hebburn there was a horrible smell that came over from the yard. Animal carcases were boiled up to make fertilisers.gelatine, glue, grease, oil, alkalis, soaps, chemicals etc'.

N Dunn
Sunday 16th of October 2016 10:14:51 AM
Walker Ferry Landing.

N Dunn
Sunday 16th of October 2016 10:02:38 AM
Site of Tommy Mann pit colliery

Rob McGinley
Friday 17th of April 2015 09:05:55 PM
Site of Cristor pit colliery

Rob McGinley
Friday 17th of April 2015 09:04:58 PM
Wallsend C (Gas) pit colliery, site of. Now tennis courts in Wallsend park.

Rob McGinley
Friday 17th of April 2015 09:03:52 PM
Wallsend F pit (Beaneyfield pit) site of.

Rob McGinley
Friday 17th of April 2015 09:01:52 PM
Rising Sun Colliery

Rob McGinley
Friday 17th of April 2015 09:00:44 PM
site of Sir Walter Scott's Hebburn Cement Works. It used the adjacent ballast hill for raw material.

Dylan Moore
Saturday 15th of November 2014 04:42:21 PM
What locals called 'Bottom Reyrolles' . Reyrolles made electrical switchgear & started in Hebburn about 1902 when Alphonse Reyrolle came to start his business. At it's peak Reyrolles employed 11,000 people, possibly more. My father worked for them for 48 yrs & they were a very good firm to work for.

N Dunn
Tuesday 24th of December 2013 04:37:06 PM
'The County Hotel'

N Dunn
Tuesday 24th of December 2013 04:33:30 PM
Hebburn Railway station. My photo is from my website www.oldtyneside.co.uk

N Dunn
Tuesday 24th of December 2013 04:32:18 PM
The Newtown School. The photo is from my www.oldtyneside.co.uk website

N Dunn
Tuesday 24th of December 2013 04:30:08 PM

N Dunn
Tuesday 24th of December 2013 04:25:00 PM

N Dunn
Tuesday 24th of December 2013 04:24:06 PM

N Dunn
Tuesday 24th of December 2013 04:23:04 PM

N Dunn
Tuesday 24th of December 2013 03:29:10 PM

N Dunn
Tuesday 24th of December 2013 03:28:23 PM

N Dunn
Tuesday 24th of December 2013 03:27:39 PM
Charles St. The large gap is because in WW2 (a few years earlier) the street was bombed.

N Dunn
Tuesday 24th of December 2013 03:26:49 PM
Station Rd properties most with Shops below them. My photo from my website www.oldtyneside.co.uk shows those properties.

N Dunn
Tuesday 24th of December 2013 03:23:50 PM
St Andrew's Church. My photo shows the front of the Church with the beautiful Institute to the right of it. Try my www.oldtyneside.co.uk for more photos

N Dunn
Tuesday 24th of December 2013 03:18:38 PM
This bare looking land in 1947 was where the Tennant's Chemical Works had been since mid 1800s. It later became the United Alkali Co. My rare photo of it is from my website www.oldtyneside.co.uk

N Dunn
Tuesday 24th of December 2013 03:14:14 PM
My photo shows the Tharsis Sulpher & Copperworks chimney which was 190ft high to enable dangerous fumes to disperse easier

N Dunn
Tuesday 24th of December 2013 03:10:32 PM
We called this the Copperworks Pond. It was a manmade brick lined reservoir & after Tharsis pulled out of Hebburn the reservoir remained unfenced, deep & dangerous. A lad called Colqhoun born about 1944 drowned in it about 1950. It was a magnet for us kids catching little fish called sticklebacks.

N Dunn
Tuesday 24th of December 2013 03:07:33 PM
The remains of the Tharsis Sulpher & Copper works.

N Dunn
Tuesday 24th of December 2013 03:04:09 PM
This land became the Towns rubbish tips. Many years later it was covered over with earth & soil & landscaped. Today the area is beautiful but not in the 40s & 50s;.

N Dunn
Tuesday 24th of December 2013 03:02:48 PM
This was a wooden bridge to allow a rail track to get to the Staiths over the bottom riverside road. The rare photo of the bridge is from my www.oldtyneside.co.uk website. As a little lad this area was our playground & we often clambered around inside this bridge. In those days late 1940s the bin wagons came along this road & through the bridge to the Town's Rubbish tips

N Dunn
Tuesday 24th of December 2013 03:00:52 PM
The site of the Newcastle Shipbuilding Co who only operated in Hebburn from 1919 to 1921 when they went bust.

N Dunn
Tuesday 24th of December 2013 02:55:28 PM
Glen St junction with Station Rd. Across the junction is Hedgeley Rd. Photo from my www.oldtyneside.co.uk site shows the Station Hotel known locally as 'Roys' after an old landlord called Mr Roy.

N Dunn
Tuesday 24th of December 2013 02:44:51 PM
This factory was known as the 'Bauxite' & not much is known about it. Bauxite is aluminium ore so aluminium must have been made here. The area around the factory was poisoned with this waste reddish oxide & mounds of it was left when they closed down.

N Dunn
Tuesday 24th of December 2013 02:40:35 PM
Lloyds Bank opposite St Aloysius Church. Photo from my website www.oldtyneside.co.uk

N Dunn
Tuesday 24th of December 2013 02:36:45 PM
A Reservoir that belonged to Tennant's Chemical Co

N Dunn
Tuesday 24th of December 2013 02:34:27 PM
Hebburn Ferry landing. My photo shows the Ferry landing plus a bit of Bonnacord St & Swan Hunters across the river. See my www.oldtyneside.co.uk website

N Dunn
Tuesday 24th of December 2013 02:33:12 PM
Wallsend Ferry Landing. My pic shows the Ferry Landing in 1975 with a Super Tanker on the Swan Hunter stocks.

N Dunn
Tuesday 24th of December 2013 02:29:28 PM
Swan Hunter's Shipyard in Wallsend

N Dunn
Tuesday 24th of December 2013 02:27:13 PM
Palmer's Ship Repairer's

N Dunn
Tuesday 24th of December 2013 02:26:34 PM
The remains of the Hebburn 'C'Pit. Later Leslies used the land for holding their steel stock.

N Dunn
Tuesday 24th of December 2013 02:25:38 PM
Leslie's Ship Yard at the bottom of Ellison St.

N Dunn
Tuesday 24th of December 2013 02:24:23 PM
Bonnacord St. My pic shows the street taken from the bottom of the Ballast Hill. Pic from my www.oldtyneside.co.uk website

N Dunn
Tuesday 24th of December 2013 02:23:36 PM
The Ballast Hill. My pic shows a Hebburn man on the top in 1951. During WW2 there were ack ack guns on the hill protecting the shipyards the Germans were trying to bomb.

N Dunn
Tuesday 24th of December 2013 02:22:04 PM
This building is still standing in 2013 & has been a Funeral Home for quite a few years. When the aerial photo was taken it was 'Martin's Bank' later becoming 'Barclays. It is on Prince Consort Road & Argyle St corner. My photo of it also shows White's Marine on Prince Consort Rd. Pics are from my www.oldtyneside.co.uk website

N Dunn
Tuesday 24th of December 2013 02:19:01 PM
Whites Marine on Prince Consort Rd

N Dunn
Tuesday 24th of December 2013 02:11:52 PM
Prince Consort Rd formerly James St

N Dunn
Tuesday 24th of December 2013 02:10:33 PM
This was a gear wheel & gearbox manufacturing factory. Originally the building was built for the Newcastle Shipbuilding Company who started off in 1919 but went bust in 1921. The Sheds & land leading to the riverside was auctioned off in 1925 but no one bought it. Items then were sold off gradually & cheaply & Gateshead company Reay Gear Works ended up with the Sheds & started off in the town. Later George Angus bought the Factory & continued Gear making. Later still Richardson Westgarth bought the factory calling themselves RW Transmissions. They closed down in the mid 1970s. Photo from my www.oldtyneside.co.uk website

N Dunn
Tuesday 24th of December 2013 02:09:50 PM
St Aloysius RC Church with the School attached

N Dunn
Monday 4th of November 2013 07:37:09 PM
Police Station with the Court next door

N Dunn
Monday 4th of November 2013 07:36:01 PM
The 'Gem' Cinema

N Dunn
Monday 4th of November 2013 07:34:48 PM
Co-op Store Hall on Lyon St-Albert St corner. It was a place where Dances were held & lots of locals met their partners there.

N Dunn
Monday 4th of November 2013 07:34:01 PM
Hebburn's 'Theatre Royal' on Lyon St which opened in 1897 & burned down in 1950. Next door on the corner of Prince Consort Rd can be seen the Ellison House Hotel that was badly damaged in the 1950 fire. I lived across the road about 50 yds along Lyon St & as a 6 yr old watched the fire burning. I'd been looking forward to a further episode of a series & never saw it unfortunately.

N Dunn
Monday 4th of November 2013 02:03:07 PM
Tyne View Tce which belonged to the Tennant's Chemical Works & used to house their management people. After the Chemical Works moved out the Terrace was rented out to a few families. My McNeill side of the family lived in it in the 30s through to the 50s. This pic from my www.oldtyneside.co.uk website shows my mothers cousin Jane at Tyne View.

N Dunn
Monday 4th of November 2013 01:55:54 PM