EAW036974 ENGLAND (1951). Tyneside, Hebburn, from the south-west, 1951. This image has been produced from a print.

This land is where Windermere Cres, Grasmere Rd, Thirlmere Court, Coniston Ave were built a year or two later.

This is the edge of the First lake a couple of years before Campbell Park Rd was created . Windermere Cres Estate is not yet built.

York Avenue

The Co-op Offices on the corner of Albert Rd and Hill St in Jarrow. Photos of it on my website www.oldtyneside.co.uk

Redhouse Rd in Hebburn.

This shows street clearances to make way for Jarrow's new Shopping Centre. Streets that were demolished just for the centre were Charles St, Hibernian Rd, Caledonian Rd, Monkton Rd. Lots of other streets were demolished at this time.

Wansbeck Rd. I have a nice photo of the street on my www.oldtyneside.co.uk website.

Bedeburn Rd. Photos of it are on my www.oldtyneside.co.uk website.

This light coloured line is where St Bede's Well is hidden out of sight. It cant be seen because it was at the bottom of a little valley locally known as 'the dip'. Photos of the Well are on my www.oldtyneside.co.uk website

This difficult to see line was actually a little burn running through a little valley locally known as 'the dip'. The water came from the lakes along this valley to St Bede's well. The stream originated in Wardley passing Burn Heads farm in Heeburn and then fed the lakes with water. The Ellison family had created embankments to form the lakes in the 1870s pos 1880s knowing the burn which previously ran across their farmland would fill them. After overflowing from the lakes the burn ran towards Jarrow where it ran into the river Don. From Bede's well the burn ran through a metal grid and continued on underground coming out at another little valley called Pig Stye Avenue.

The long gone St Peter's Church which was I think on Ferry St. Photo from my www.oldtyneside.co.uk website. A new St Peter's church was built on York Ave.

The long gone Presbyterian Church on Ellison St. Photo from my www.oldtyneside.co.uk website

Christ Church. Photos of it on my www.oldtyneside.co.uk website

Borough Rd

Jarrow Redhouse Farm

Croft Terrace School. I have quite a few class photos taken here & now on my www.oldtyneside.co.uk website

Jarrow Cemetery hidden amongst the trees.

Low Simonside Estate which looks newly built. My wife was brought up on that estate (Brixham Cres).

St Paul's Church which dates back to St Bede.Plenty photos of it on my www.oldtyneside.co.uk website

Jarrow Slake.

The Harbour at South Shields

This was the Crusher.The workmen that worked on the slag heap would drill holes into the slag & put dynamite down the holes. A siren would sound as a warning to keep clear & then there was a massive explosion. The large pieces of slag was then taken to the crusher. The end product was gravel ideal for road making.

Jarrow Tube Works. try my www.oldtyneside.co.uk website for photos taken in this area,

This was a path that in the 1950s we kids used to get to the top of the slag heap.

This is the original Bedeburn School on Wood Tce/Bedeburn Rd corner

Valley View School. Take a look at my website to see images of the school www.oldtyneside.co.uk

Elmfield Tce nicknamed 'Sinkers Row' after the men who sank the pit shaft that closed in 1925. Take a look at what is said about the pit shaft on this aerial photo. The photo showing the children playing in that terrace is on my www.oldtyneside.co.uk website

Jarrow Park. Photos of it are on my www.oldtyneside.co.uk website

Bede Trading Estate in Jarrow

Jarrow Grammar School

This is a Sports field in Monkton that was started off by the Metal Works, Tube Works & Palmers & given the name 'Metupa'. It is still there today with stands & tartan track so a real Sports Stadium.

Cambridge Ave houses recently built on this 1951 photo

Baker Perkins Factory & Sportsfield.

This was a mineshaft sunk for Wallsend & Hebburn Colliery in 1920 & closed in 1925. It was still there in the late 50s & by then local Council Housing was just across the lines from it.

The Pontop Line where the Bowes Coal Trucks ran past the Slag Heap & Jarrow Park & on down to the Staiths at the riverside

The Monkton Coke Works. Photos of the works are on my free website www.oldtyneside.co.uk

The Lord Nelson in Monkton Village

This is the Slag Heap straddling the Hebburn - Jarrow border. It was created with the molten slag that came from the Palmer's Blast Furnace's in Jarrow. It was tipped whilst still molten like lava from a Volcano. Photos of the area are on my www.oldtyneside.co.uk website