EAW022497 ENGLAND (1949). Robert Bowran and Co Ltd Green Lane Paint Works, Pelaw, 1949. This image was marked by Aerofilms Ltd for photo editing.
© Copyright OpenStreetMap contributors and licensed by the OpenStreetMap Foundation. 2025. Cartography is licensed as CC BY-SA.
Nearby Images (21)
EAW022497
0°
0m
EAW020553
77°
18m
EAW020551
105°
22m
EAW020555
151°
29m
EAW022500
280°
33m
EAW022495
54°
51m
EAW022502
262°
52m
EAW020556
128°
64m
EAW020552
101°
72m
EAW022498
141°
97m
EAW020554
246°
107m
EAW022496
347°
107m
EAW020549
327°
112m
EAW022499
356°
114m
EAW020548
5°
121m
EAW020550
214°
131m
EAW022501
329°
132m
EAW016907
350°
157m
EAW016900
20°
196m
EAW016906
306°
205m
EAW016903
359°
222m
Details
| Title | [EAW022497] Robert Bowran and Co Ltd Green Lane Paint Works, Pelaw, 1949. This image was marked by Aerofilms Ltd for photo editing. |
| Reference | EAW022497 |
| Date | 20-April-1949 |
| Link | |
| Place name | PELAW |
| Parish | |
| District | |
| Country | ENGLAND |
| Easting / Northing | 429245, 561986 |
| Longitude / Latitude | -1.5433259522751, 54.951585394951 |
| National Grid Reference | NZ292620 |
Pins
 You can see the empty spaces where the old streets used to be after demolishion.
There was a Reservoir St close to reservoir then a Third St,a Second St,and a First St ending beside Wardley Lane that went over the Pelaw to Sunderland railway bridge to Bill Quay bridge. |
 N Dunn |
Saturday 12th of March 2022 05:40:00 PM |
| This was Wardley Village's reservoir, and as you can see very close to it is the Methodist Chapel & Infant School |
N Dunn |
Saturday 12th of March 2022 05:34:57 PM |
| Wardley's original Colliery which a few years later was modernised with new Offices, Canteen,Medical Centre, Locker rooms, Shower blocks, Lamp rooms etc etc. Underground a 2000 yard roadway with rail lines was created to go to Follonsby and then onto Usworth Colliery |
N Dunn |
Saturday 12th of March 2022 05:32:59 PM |
| Electrified third rail track for the Newcastle to South Shields trains. |
John Wass |
Tuesday 27th of January 2015 09:37:22 PM |
| Air raid shelters. |
John Wass |
Tuesday 27th of January 2015 09:34:58 PM |