EPW053950 ENGLAND (1937). The Wardley Colliery, Victoria Road and Hebburn New Town, Hebburn, 1937. This image has been produced from a print.

Wardley Primary (infants) school. My father went there between 1933-1940

Hartleyburn Avenue

Lambley Cres

East View

This was an old Quarry.

Leslie's Sportsfield

Tharsis Sulpher & Copper Works. This company had a mine in the Huelvo area of Spain inland from the Costa Del Sol in the mountain region.

This is the 'Bushing Company' factory next door to the Reyrolle Works

Victoria Rd west in Hebburn

Redhouse Farm min Hebburn. Photo from my www,oldtyneside.co.uk website

St Cuthbert's Vicarage built away from the smoke and noises of industry along the riverside of Hebburn. That vicarage is long gone and a new one was built next to the church, Photo from my www.oldtyneside.co.uk website

This empty land soon became the home for Hebburn Technical College. Today in 2015 it is awaiting demolition as it hasn't been used for a number of years. Photos of it on my www.oldtyneside.co.uk website

Wardley Lane leading from the Colliery to Bill Quay Bridge

This was a covered reservoir on the corner of Victoria Rd West (Hebburn) and Mill Lane. In the early 1900s locals called Mill Lane 'the waterworks road' probably because of the reservoir

Mill Farm which is at the side of Mill Lane

Monkton Coke Works

Jones's Brickyard close to their Quarries where they took the clay from for brick making

Hebburn Cemetery

Wardley Lane leading to Bill Quay bridge

Second Street, Wardley Colliery

First Street, Wardley Colliery. All these houses are long gone.

Third St, Wardley Colliery

Hebburn Hall (Ellison Hall ). In 1937 it no longer was the Ellison families home as they'd gave it over to be an Infirmary. Photos of it and the area on my www.oldtyneside.co.uk website

Burn Heads Farm which is long gone.

Reyrolles & its sports field infront & then Victoria Rd west with the Cemetery across the road. I have photos of this area on my www.oldtyneside.co.uk website

Hebburn's Fever Hospital. My mothers little sister Margaret Rodgers died in this hospital 2 yrs before this aerial photo was taken. She was just 5 yrs old & in isolation so all the family could do was look through the window & see her fighting for life.

Thistley House Farm , Wardley. Why not check out my other website for Wardley, Bill Quay photos? www.gatesheadeast.co.uk

This was the Second Lake close to the Park. There used to be a Boathouse on the eastern shore that was once used by the Ellison family who owned Hebburn Hall. The park had been their private garden & the lakes their ponds. It was that landowning family that in the 1860s possibly 70s had earth embankments constructed to form the shape of the lakes as you see them on this photo. The burn that flowed over the area then filled them naturally. Before those lakes were constructed the area was farmland.

This was called the Island Lake as it had a small island in the middle where Swans & ducks could safely nest.

This Lake was known as the First Lake. It had a Pump house that stood on the top of the Bank at the eastern end & where water was drawn off & pumped for Industry use. In the 1950s the pump house was unused & empty of equipment apart from suction pipes leading into the lake.

This Hebburn lake was known locally as Sandy Bottom.

These were worked out Quarry's in Wardley. As young teenagers in the late 1950s the quarry was a playground for us boys.

Bill Quay School

Bluehouse Farm. just inside the Hebburn border

Wardley Colliery