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Numbers 9 & 10 Burnville, Heaton viewed from Stratford Road – 2026 Before the late 19th century, the land where Burnvill...
05/09/2026

Numbers 9 & 10 Burnville, Heaton viewed from Stratford Road – 2026
Before the late 19th century, the land where Burnville sits was part of a sprawling agricultural and mining estate owned by the prominent local figure Armourer Donkin. Upon his death in 1857, the land was bequeathed to his business partner, the legendary industrialist Sir William Armstrong.. In 1879, Armstrong gifted much of this estate—including Armstrong Park and Jesmond Dene—to the city. Burnville was developed just on the edge of these protected green spaces, directly overlooking the Ouseburn.
The Heaton area of Newcastle upon Tyne was developed in the early 1880s as part of a housing estate built for local workers and their families.
Stratford Road is part of a cluster of streets in southern and western Heaton named to honour William Shakespeare and his plays. Alongside Stratford Road, neighbouring streets include Stratford Grove, Stratford Grove West, Stratford Grove Terrace, and Stratford Villas. Local Nearby streets also reference Shakespearean characters like Bolingbroke, Hotspur, Malcolm, and Mowbray.
The local area near Stratford Road (up the hill and off to the left on the photo) contains the historical sites of Robin Sheep’s Cave, in which tradition says Robin, a poor mendicant, lived for some years. A natural cave, it is noted in 19th-century trade directories and Ordnance Survey plans.

The former Traveller's Rest pub, in Wideopen, was reopened as The Coaches and Horses after a £700,000 transformation in ...
05/09/2026

The former Traveller's Rest pub, in Wideopen, was reopened as The Coaches and Horses after a £700,000 transformation in 2023. The existing building was built circa 1937/38 on the site of the previous pub of the same name.
The Coaches and Horses has been given its name to commemorate the Great North Road, where the pub is located, which was the main road and thoroughfare in Wideopen dating back to when Coaches and Horses were the primary mode of transport.

The Seaton Burn social club was immensly popular in prior years. Long gone now. On the same site is the retirement hous...
04/09/2026

The Seaton Burn social club was immensly popular in prior years. Long gone now. On the same site is the retirement housing building called Chapelville. Managed by North Tyneside Council..... It is the building on the left opposite the Moorhouse pub on FRont Street SEaton Burn..

Pottergate - Alnwick Pottergate PantThis pant is situated at the bottom of Pottergate next to the Harry Hotspur statue a...
04/09/2026

Pottergate - Alnwick
Pottergate Pant
This pant is situated at the bottom of Pottergate next to the Harry Hotspur statue and the Dirty Bottles hotel and was built in 1875 replacing a previous pant from 1790. The inscriptions on the pant commemorate William Dickson, who was a local historian, solicitor and founder of the Alnwick and County Bank.

The Shoulder of Mutton in Longhorsley, Northumberland, is the last surviving historic public house in the village. - 202...
04/09/2026

The Shoulder of Mutton in Longhorsley, Northumberland, is the last surviving historic public house in the village. - 2026

Info from Genuki & Beacon hill history websites:-

The Shoulder of Mutton was originally on the Earl of Carlisle’s estate, but sold in 1861. In the middle of the 19th century, this public house was a substantial building. It had a six and a two-stalled stable, a loosebox and a byre. There were seven rooms, two kitchens, a cellar and a bar. The Shoulder of Mutton Inn also known in very early years as the Star Inn was owned by Ellen Jefferies until her son, Andrew, took over in the early 1850's. His son Robert and Robert's twin sons Andrew and Robert were all born there. The family ran the Inn until 1939 when Mr and Mrs Cooper took over. The Pub has changed hands considerably since then. The Inn had a face lift in 1989 by the owner of the time Mr David Latimer, with a completely new decoration inside and out

Looking down the Groat Market from the Bigg Market
03/09/2026

Looking down the Groat Market from the Bigg Market

Seaton Burn is a place passed through many times but not visited until 2026!The former coal-mining village in North Tyne...
03/09/2026

Seaton Burn is a place passed through many times but not visited until 2026!
The former coal-mining village in North Tyneside, Tyne and Wear, located about 6 miles A short history from various sources:-
1838–1844: Shaft sinking began north of Six Mile Bridge by the "Grand Allies," a consortium of Durham coal owners, with the main Seaton Burn Colliery opening around 1844 and production starting in the early 1840s.
1850s–1890s: Ownership passed to John Bowes & Partners in 1850. The pit expanded in 1862 with new shafts, including one at Brenkley. By the late 19th century, management shifted to the Seaton Burn Coal Company.
Peak and Decline: Employment peaked in 1911 and 1921 (over 1,200–1,300 workers), but severe economic depressions in the 1920s and 1930s led to strikes, closures, and voluntary liquidation.
Nationalisation and Closure: Taken over by the Hartley Main Group in 1938 and later nationalised under the National Coal Board in 1947. The original colliery closed on August 17, 1965, though the adjacent Brenkley Drift mine kept producing coal until 1986.

Four Lane Ends former CIU Club ---- Two photos from April 2022 and two from July 2026The former Four Lane Ends Social...
03/09/2026

Four Lane Ends former CIU Club ---- Two photos from April 2022 and two from July 2026
The former Four Lane Ends Social Club building on Whitby Crescent in Longbenton has been approved for repurposing into a modern office and Biosafety Level 2 (BSL-2) lab research facility
Previously the vacant two-storey building was initially considered for demolition by North Tyneside Council after being deemed surplus to requirements and not fit for purpose. However a planning application reference 23/01037/FUL was approved in late 2023, the site was instead slated for commercial transformation rather than bulldozing.
Currently (????) The freehold of the property has been marketed for sale with the active planning permission in place for research, development, or medical health service uses.
(If it is left much longer it might just collapse !)

A wander around Barter Books at the old Alnwick Railway Station.......Hidden inside the historic market town’s decommiss...
02/09/2026

A wander around Barter Books at the old Alnwick Railway Station.......
Hidden inside the historic market town’s decommissioned Victorian railway station, for over thirty years Barter Books has welcomed visitors from all over the globe.
Some info from the This is Northumberland web site:-

The Barter Books story began back in 1991, when, faced with a rather daunting overdraft, former art history teacher from Memphis, Tennessee, Mary Manley, dreamt up an idea to open a secondhand bookshop. Inspired by her time working at bookshops in New York City, Mary had always wondered whether she could create something special in her adopted home of Northumberland. It wouldn’t be just any bookshop, though. Her unorthodox business proposition was based on a swap system, whereby customers could trade in their own books for credit in the shop. Her husband Stuart - who at the time was manufacturing miniature train parts in a small factory within Alnwick’s disused railway station - was taken by her idea. The model railway business was becoming increasingly challenging, after all, it was the early nineties, and children all of a sudden were now far more interested in video games than train sets. Persuaded by Mary’s enthusiasm and eager to keep the debt collectors at bay, Stuart suggested to Mary that she open a shop in the front room of his manufacturing plant. A partnership was forged, Barter Books was born, and so began a journey that would eventually result in a bookshop with a stock so extensive it would later be described by the New Statesman magazine as ‘The British Library of secondhand bookshops’.
The train station which houses the bookshop was designed by William Bell in 1887 and was built to a remarkable size and grandeur for what was a prosperous, yet small, provincial market town. This anomaly can be explained by the presence of the Dukes of Northumberland inhabiting the nearby Alnwick Castle. In the 19th century an impressive train station was deemed necessary in order to satisfy visiting royalty and VIP guests!
Trains continued to operate out of the station until 1968, when services ceased as part of the Beeching rationalisation of Britain’s railways

Bathed in warm evening sunshine, the former Ringtons Tea Building, Algernon Road, Byker, Newcastle.This building was con...
02/09/2026

Bathed in warm evening sunshine, the former Ringtons Tea Building, Algernon Road, Byker, Newcastle.
This building was constructed in 1924 to house the head office of the Newcastle company, Ringtons Tea Ltd. The front façade of this six storey white stone building is very distinctive, especially with its ornately sculptured gable. Whilst the building is no longer occupied by the company the large signage on the façade reading, ‘Ringtons Limited Tea Merchants’, ‘Est. 1907’, and ‘Ringtons Ltd 1924’, is still in situ. Ringtons Limited continues to be a tea and coffee manufacturing business based in Newcastle which was founded in 1907 by Samuel Smith. The company delivered tea across the nation through a door to door service, initially by horse-drawn vehicle, a service which still continues today. – ( In fact he is due on Monday!)

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