EPW053948 ENGLAND (1937). Hebburn New Town and the Tyne Sulphur and Copper Works, Hebburn, 1937. This image has been produced from a damaged negative.

Craddock Avenue. Lots of Hebburn photos on my website www.oldtyneside.co.uk

West Parade. Lots of Hebburn photos on my website www.oldtyneside.co.uk

Clennel Ave.Lots of Hebburn photos on my website www.oldtyneside.co.uk

Derby Cres, Hebburn. Lots of Hebburn photos on my website www.oldtyneside.co.uk

This is Pelaw Main Staithes. More closely linked to Bill Quay than Hebburn, Pelaw Main was a while town in itself. It had two pubs and one hotel.

Whinney Lane. Mainly a path that led from Victoria Road West down to Pelaw Main Staithes.

This little Valley was known as 'The Dip'. A stream ran through it from the lakes & into a gully beside St Bede's Well then under the slag heap. The stream exited through Pig Stye Ave allotments & ran into the river Don.

St Cuthbert's Vicarage which was built so the Vicar didn't have to live next to the Church which was in the industrial area of Hebburn. In the 1800s air quality was very poor in the town with Chemical manufacturers, industrial chimneys etc. The photo is from my www.oldtyneside.co.uk website. Soon after this aerial photo was taken Cambridge Avenue Estate was built.

One of the oldest houses in Hebburn standing in the corner of Leslies Sportsfield & close to the water filled quarries. The photo is from my www.oldtyneside.co.uk

About 1950ish this area was built on forming the Windermere Crescent Estate, with Grasmere Rd, Thirlmere Court & Coniston Avenue. I was brought up in Grasmere Rd from 9yrs old to 25. My photo shows Windermere Cres.

The Bowes line where the coal trucks from Wardley area brought the coal down to the Staiths in Jarrow. My Pic was taken close to the pin but much later & it shows the track further west with the Monkton Coke Works.

These three properties were called Langley Villas on the right nearest the Reyrolle sports field , then Heathfield House & finally Afton House. No photos of them exist unfortunately

North Hebburn. The aerial view is not too clear. The photo is from my www.oldtyneside.co.uk website

Victoria Rd West. Once it got to Station Rd it continued as Victoria Rd East until it reached Jarrow where it became Albert Rd,

South Drive which led from Victoria Rd to the Bushing Company.

Baker Perkins

Monkton Hospital which was men only in those far off days housed patients with what today we call Learning difficulties. As a young lad in the 50s we lived on a new estate just north of the Hospital & got to know some of the patients. Some patients played football on their own field so local kids joined in aswell. Some kept pigeons like us kids. A few patients worked for the local coalmen delivering one hundredweight (1cwt) sacks of coal to Hebburn & Jarrow residents. This was probably cheap labour in those days but it benifitted them by getting out and about.

Burn Heads Farm. The rare photo of the farm is from my www.oldtyneside.co.uk website

Whites Marine Works on Prince Consort Rd

This last lake was known as 'Sandy Bottom'

This is the old remains of the Carr Ellison families Boathouse at the edge of what was known as 'The second lake'. The photo from my website www.oldtyneside.co.uk shows the remains of the boathouse

This was known as 'The Island Lake'. In the 1950s when I was young the island was overgrown with shrubs & trees. Mute swans & ducks nested on it safe from dogs & cats.

The Fever Hospital next to Hebburn Cemetery, just off Victoria Rd West. The photo is from my www.oldtyneside.co.uk website. My mothers little sister Margaret Rodgers died aged 5yrs 6mths in this Fever Hospital in 1935. My mother was 13 in 1935 & she told me they couldn't got in to see Margaret in case they caught the fever, so all they could do was look through the window from outside.

The Ambulance Station on the corner of St John's Avenue & Victoria Rd West. The photo is from my www.oldtyneside.co.uk website

On my 1916 Map one of these little cottages is called 'The Elders'. This Sketch of what I think is the Elders is from my www.oldtyneside.co.uk website

St Aloysius RC Church. Photo taken from my www.oldtyneside.co.uk website

Tennant St named after the family who opened the Tennant's Chemical Factory down by the riverside. The photo is from my www.oldtyneside.co.uk website.

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

Hebburn Railway Station. The photo is from my www.oldtyneside.co.uk website.

This was Hebburn's little Power Station. After it was redundant some buildings were used as a Dance Hall, with youth club, Gymnasium etc. The photo is from my www.oldtyneside.co.uk website with thousands of old images to view.

Reyrolles 'bottom works' and not too far from it's Newtown Works.

This area was known as the Bauxite.

This land is where Clegwell School was built along with the sports field adjacent to the High Rd (Victoria Rd East). A bit further east is where Clegg Farm was & the Clegg well where fresh water was drawn.

Redhouse Farm which is long gone & close to where Ushaw Rd is today.

Hebburn Quarries which were filled in long ago. They became unused & gradually filled with water so were very dangerous. Apparently a few people used them to commit suicide. The only link we have to them now is Quarry Rd which led to them. They were situated on the south side of Leslies Sports Field.

The Bushing Company.

Reyrolle's with it's Sports field infront

This was the Copperworks reservoir & it was still there when the Works had closed & been demolished. It was deep & in the 50s a lad called Colqhoun drowned in it. Us kids used to catch sticklebacks in it even though it had dangerous sloping sides. You couldn't wade in the water or you'd just slide down into the depths. I think it was 30ft deep.

St Bede's Well was yards from the edge of the Slag Heap. The slag came from Palmer's Blast Furnaces in Jarrow & was dumped as hot molten slag.My mother told me when they dumped it in darkness it lit the sky up.

Monkton Village

This was known as the 'First Lake' & it was one of four lakes made by the Ellison family mid to late 1800s.

Hebburn Cemetery

Tharsis Copper Works

The Slag Heap