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• Arndale House Shops - PG4
• Blackfell Army Camp - PG6
• Biddick Crossing / Arts Centre - PG12
• Blue House Lane - PG5
• Brady Square (Area) - PG12
• Brandy Row School - PG6
• Buses / Worswick Street - MISC
• Chartershaugh - PG9
• Clan Crusader - PG7
• Cox Green - PG14
• Cox Green Station - PG14
• Dame Margaret's Hall - PG11
• Edith Avenue - PG2
• Eighton Banks - PG8
• Fatfield / Harraton - PG9
• Follingsby / Wardley Colliery - PG1
• Front Street - PG3
• Harraton Colliery - PG9
• Havannah Terrace - PG5
• Heworth Road - PG5

• High Usworth - PG7
• Lambton Lion Park - PG15
• Leamside Line - PG1
• Mill House Pub - PG6
• Miscellaneous - MISC
• New Inn Corner - PG3
• North Biddick Colliery - PG14
• Penshaw Monument - PG15
• Penshaw Station - PG15
• RCA Record Factory - PG6
• Spout Lane - PG4
• Spout Lane (cont.) - PG10
• Squatters / Hostel Estate - PG2
• Springwell - PG8
• Stile Inn / Old Top Club - PG3
• Usworth Aerodrome - PG2
• Usworth Brickyard - PG1
• Usworth Colliery - PG1
• Usworth Colliery School - PG2
• Usworth Comprehensive School - PG5

• Usworth Green - PG1
• Usworth Park - PG2
• Usworth Station - PG3
• Victoria Road - PG4
• Victoria Viaduct - PG14
• Washington Brickyard - PG6
• Washington Chemical Works - PG13
• Washington 'F' Colliery - PG6
• Washington Galleries - PG7
• Washington Glebe Colliery - PG12
• Washington Glebe School - PG12
• Washington Grammar School - PG4
• Washington Old Hall - PG11
• Washington Station Road - PG12
• Washington Station - PG13
• Washington Urban District Council - PG10
• Washington Village - PG10
• Waterloo - PG1
• Well Bank Road - PG7

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• About, Copyright etc.
• Comments
• Make A Desktop Shortcut
• Meet the Editor
• Visitors by Country - April 2020
The Photo Gallery
• Images in Geographical Order
Church Documents Etc.
• Churches & Chapels (Quick Reference)
High Usworth Holy Trinity Church
• Marriages (1837-1982)
• War Memorials (Transcript)
Our Lady Immaculate RC Church
• Images Inside & Out
• Centenary Booklet
Saint Michael & All Angels Church
• Baptisms
• Mothers' Union
Washington Holy Trinity Church
• Church History
• War Memorial Window
Washington Staithes Church
• Centenary Booklet
Collieries:
• Banners - Local Lodges
... Usworth (Keir Hardy & 2015 Version)
• Closure Dates ('F' Pit, Glebe & Usworth Pics)
• Communities Built On Coal (Booklet)
• Disaster - Fatfield Pit (1708)
• Disaster - Glebe (1908)
• Disaster - Lonnen Pit (1736)
• Disaster - Springwell (1837)
• Disaster - Usworth (1885)
... Durham Chronicle Articles (1885)
... 125th Anniversary Service
... Memorial in Top Club
• Disasters - List (Within a few miles)
• Drawings (John Suggett's Usworth Memories)
• Flame Safety Lamps & Self Rescuers
• Harraton Old Pits (Maps)
• Local Mines on Modern Map
• Memories of a Young Haulage Lad
• Miners' Statue / Blue Plaque (Concord)
• Usworth Colliery Fatalities
• Washington 'F' Fatalities
(Other Colliery Fatalities, See: 'Disaster'.)
• Mining Qualifications & Certificates
• Mount Moor Colliery
North Biddick Colliery
• Archbold Hawthorn - Hero
• Fossilised Tree
• Victorian Postcard
• Pit Baths
• Pitmatic - NE Miners' Language
• Pneumoconiosis
• Springwell Colliery (Brief History)
• T. H. Cann, Aged Miners' Homes
• Usworth Colliery - Coal to Wardley
• Usworth Colliery Miners (Men & Boys)
... The Richardson Family
• Usworth Miners' Welfare Hall
• Vesting Day / Datal Wages (1947)
• Washington Coal Company Ltd
... plus payment of wages (1960s)
• Washington 'F' Pit (Brief History)
• Washington 'F' Pit Heaps - Views
• Washington 'F' Pit Miners' Welfare Hall
... Painting of Miners' Hall
• Wash Glebe Miners' Hall (Blue Plaque)
• Washington Mining MPs (1950-1972)
• Washington School Strike (1917)
• Waggonways & Staiths
Maps Etc:
• Barmston Riverside & Coxgreen Ferry
• Beamish Museum Layout (Plan a visit)
• Brady Square (1965)
• Bridges (Fatfield, Victoria, The Burn etc)
Coach Road Estate (Before & After)
... Go to: 'Then & Now' - Saint Bede's Church
• Copperas Works (Near Coxgreen)
• Farms (Barmston, Glebe, High Washington etc)
• Fatfield Bridge & Victoria Viaduct (1921)
• Halls & Castles. (Which is which?)
• Harraton Old Pits
• Lambton Park Walks / Picktree Quays
• Local Mines on Modern Map
• Low Lambton Coal Depot
• New Wash - Wash St. (1951, New Window)
• New Washington & Usworth (c.1967)
• New Washington (Surrounding Fields, 1898)
• Railways (through Usworth & Washington)
• Residents, Lists of (Some Street Plans)
• River Wear (Zoom-in, 1737)
• Springwell & Rowleyhill Quarries
• Springwell / Usworth Common (1856)
• Stroll Down Well Known Roads
• Usworth Colliery Community (1921)
• Usworth Colliery / Waterloo (4 Maps)
• Usworth Green - The Prefabs
• Usworth Park / Station Road (1965)
• Victoria Bridge Rail Links
• Victorian Photo Cards (Maps: R. Wear)
• Villages & Industrial Estates (1974)
• Washington (1702)
• Washington (1851)
• Washington (1888-1913, New Window)
• Washington Chemical Works
• Washington Mines on Modern Map
• Washington Moor (1763 & 1858)
• Washington Poppy Walk
• Washington Surroundings (1863)
• Washington Village to Waterside
• Wash. Village School (Bobby Lee's, 1896)
• Wash. Village Wagonway (Proposal, 1790)
• Well (aka Pant) on Well Bank
• Waggonways & Staiths
Miscellaneous:
• Bits & Pieces (Short Items of Interest)
• Blue Plaques
• Boats and Ships (Local Names)
• Bricks
• Brief Histories (Press Cuttings)
... Springwell Colliery / Village
... Usworth Brickyard
... Usworth / Washington Railway
• Business Advertisements
• Clan Crusader Sports Car
• Concord (Aerial Quiz, 1970s)
Covid-19 Pandemic (Misc Pictures)
... NHS Tributes (Princess Anne Park)
... Christmas Decorations (The Village)
... Washington Miners Blue Plaque
• Coxgreen Boat Perseverance (2020 Storms)
• Fact or Fiction? (You decide!)
• Football - Amateur (Old Tables)
... Clubs & Officials (1912/13)
... Northern Alliance Rules (1967/68)
• Football League Players (Local)
• Geo. Washington 250th (Guest List / Menu)

• Havannah Terrace
• Horticultural Show Poster (1854)
• Hostel Estate / The Squatters
... Sunderland Echo (Re: Book Below)
... No Homes For Heroes (Book)
• Hunter's Loo-y Bus
• Kelly's Directory Extracts (1890 & 1914)
• Lambton Worm (Story & Lyrics)
... Worm Hill (Short Article)
• Leamside Railway Line
... Local Train Tickets / Fares
... Victoria Viaduct to Gateshead
... Trainspotting (50s & 60s)
• New Road to Spout Lane (Name Change)
• Mystery Guidepost (Where was it?)
• NHS Tributes (Princess Anne Park, 2020)
• Penshaw Monument (Paul Lanagan Articles)
• Phone Book Listings (1939)
• Popular Pages (Good place to start!)
Postcards & Plates
Keith Cockerill's Postcard Collections
• Fatfield / Harraton
• Springwell
... Misc. Colour Locations (Renovated)
... Plates (Six Local Scenes)
... WW1 Collection
• Pub Crawl
... Cross Keys Landlords / Ladies
• RCA Record Factory
• Residents, Lists of (1939, plus House Nos)
River Wear Walks
... (Wetlands, South Hylton Bridge, Coxgreen)
... (Fatfield Bridge - Coxgreen)
... (Lambton Park on Lambton Estate - Leaflet)
• River Wear Videos (By Keith Cockerill)
• Shafto Terrace - Tenants (1920)
• Shipbuilding (Fatfield to Cox Green)
• Showmen's Caravan Site
• Springwell Bunker & Decoy Site
• Springwell (John Robson's Journal)
• Springwell to The Drive (Aerial, 1945)
• Stile Inn ... or is it?
• Street Names (1904)
• Stroll Down Well Known Roads
... Front Street
... Peareth Hall Road
... Spout Lane
... Usworth Station Road
... Victoria Road
... Washington Station Road
• Sulgrave Village & Tube Investments
• Usworth Aerodrome
• Usworth Election Leaflet (1913)
• Usworth - Mystery Chimney (1920s)
• Usworth Top Club
... Wine Tasting Night
• Victorian Photo Cards (R. Wear)
• Washington, American Bicentenary (1976)
• Washington Chemical Works
• Washington Galleries Opening (1974)
• Washington Labour News (1923)
• Washington Major Roads
• Washington Monopoly & Word Picture
... Overview of Old Washington
• Washington Old Hall
• Washington Pageant (1933)
• Washington Parish Magazine (1948)
• Washington Village (Fallen Tree Branches)
People:
• Allison - Henrietta (Etty)
• Archer Family
... Meggie (Mothers' Union)
... Daughter Sadie (Temperance Society)
... Son Joe (Home Guard)
• Bell - Gertrude, CBE
... Sir Isaac Lowthian Bell (Grandfather)
• Boxing
... Byker Boxers by Joe Chipchase
Fisher v Gillon (Bare-Knuckle Fatality)
St. James Hall (Washington Builder)
... Harbin - Jack (Usworth Miner / Pro Boxer)
... McMann - Peter ('F' Pit Miner / Pro Boxer)
• Carter - President / Washington Old Hall
• Copeman Family
... Richard & Elizabeth
... Son Tom / Grandson Tom (Royal Navy)
• Craddock - Bill, MBE
• Forte Family
... Ancestors
• Football
... Bulch - Bobby
... Ferry & Kendall (Teammates)
... Hagan - Jimmy
... Hunter - Norman
... Stelling - Jack
... Local Lass Marries Man Utd Star
... Local Players in League Teams
• Gibson - George (Father)
... Joseph Gibson CBE (Son)
• Hill - Frederick / Washington Old Hall
... Near Catastrophe (Brandy Row School)
• Jeffreys - Sir Harold, FRS
• Kelly - Mary Evelyn
• Lomax - Reverend Canon Cyril, MA
• Olds - Joseph (Overman, Councillor, J.P.)
• Peacock's of Eighton Banks
• Peareth - Susan
• Richardson Family
• Robson - John (Springwell)
• Royal Visits
• Simpson - David M. (Author / Squatter)
• Spencer - Captain John W.
• Suggett - John (Paintings: Boyhood Memories)
... Jim Tatters (Usworth Miner's Memories)
• Thompson - Robert Michael (Bobby)
• Washington's Mining MPs (1950-1972)
Poets' Corner:
• Anon Durham Miner (Big Meeting Day)
• Anon Local Poet (District Numbers)
• Christopher Bennett (Local Dialect)
• John Coyle (High Usworth; Waterloo)
• Robert Frost (The Road Not Taken)
• K. Gregson (Ballad of Glebe Pit Disaster)
• Albert L. Hind (My County Durham)
• Edward Nesbitt (7 Local Poems)
• Lorna Prudhoe (4 Local Poems)
• Arthur Ridley (Fatfield Pit Disaster)
Schools:
• Barmston (The Bumbler Box)
• Biddick
• Bobby Lee's
• Brandy Row ( Near Catastrophe! )
• Chester-le-Street Boys (Football)
• Fatfield Council / Primary
• High Usworth
• King's Letter / VE Day Mugs
• Saint Bede's
• Saint Joseph's
• Springwell Primary
• Susan Peareth's
• Usworth Juniors / Infants
... Reunion Notice 1948

• Usworth Seniors
... Prize Winners 1963
• Washington Glebe
... Staff, Classes, Teams etc. (5 Pages)
... The Glebian Magazine (1950)
The School on Spout Lane
• Washington Council School
• Washington Secondary School (no link)
... Pirates of Penzance (1929 & 1938)
... 'Mr Chips' (Washington D.C.)
... Pupil's Report (1928-34)
• Washington Grammar School
... Job Adverts for School Leavers
... Magazine Editorials (Dec '57 & '58)
... Mikado (1956) / Make Believe (c1953)
... Pupils' Photo (1954)
... Pupils' Photo (1964)
... The Buildings
• Washington School Strike (1917)
Then & Now:
Miscellaneous Collection:
• Page (1/8)
... Usworth Colliery / Waterloo Road
... Saint Michael's / Pawson's Factory
... Usworth Miners' Welfare Hall
... Usworth Welfare Park / Pavilion
... Stile Inn / Original Top Club
• Page (2/8)
... Front Street - Post Office Pillar Box
... Front Street / Victoria Road
... New Inn Corner / Spout Lane
... Victoria Road / Front Street
... Saint Bede's Church
... Blue House Lane
... Washington 'F' Colliery
... 'F' Pit Museum Locomotive
• Page (3/8)
... Susan Peareth's School
... Blue Bell Inn
... The School House (Board School)
... Return to Spout Lane
• Page (4/8)
... Washington Village
... Mystery Doorway
... Above Holy Trinity Church
... Black Bush Inn
... Glebe Crescent / Old Gravel Pit
... Glebe Colliery / The Avenue
... Washington Station Road
• Page (5/8)
... Wear Terrace / Glen Terrace
... T & I Bell's / St. Cuthbert's Mission
... Brady Square - Wagonway
... Brady Square - Biddick School
... Barmston Close / Old Post Office
• Page (6/8)
... Railway Station - Usworth
... Marble Arch
... Railway Station - Washington
... Railway Station - Penshaw
... View From Penshaw Hill
• Page (7/8)
... Coxgreen Footbridge
... Royal William / Alice Well
... Worm Hill Terrace
... Biddick Inn & Bonemill Lane
... North Biddick Social Club
... Harraton Community Centre
• Page (8/8)
... The Galleries Bus Station
... View From Sheddon's Hill
... The Mill House Hotel
More 'Then & Now' Pages:
• Bridge Collection
... 'The Burn' Bridge
... Chartershaugh Bridge
... Coxgreen Footbridge
... Fatfield Bridge
... Lamb Bridge
... Marble Arch
... Penshaw Station
... Victoria Viaduct
...... Graffiti / Vandalism
... Vigo Lane Bridge
... Washington Station
• Castle Street
• Cinemas
• Farm Collection
... High, Middle & Low Barmston
(including Barmston Riverside)
... Dunkirk Farm (Steam Fair)
... The Glebe, High Washington,
... Havannah House & others
• Harraton Old Pits (Maps)
• Mark Scott's Shop
• On The Buses / Bus Routes
• Peacock's of Eighton Banks
• RCA Record Factory
• Wilden Terrace / Arthur's Place
• Past & Present by Lesley Bulch
... Albert Place / Oxclose Road
... Brady Square
... Glebe Crescent
... Glen Terrace / Derwent Terrace
... Victoria Hotel / Glebe Pit / Queens
... Washington Village / Village Lane
... Washington Colliery Waggonway
... Westwood Club / Red House
World Wars / Memorials:
• Blackfell Army Camp / Home Guard
• Harraton War Memorial (Refurbishment)
Rolls Of Honour
• Fatfield School Pupils
• High Usworth Holy Trinity Church
• Usworth Colliery & 'F' Pit Workmen
• Wash. Staithes Church (War Memorial)
• Washington Grammar School
• Royal Navy Field Gun Race / Arctic Star
• Usworth Aerodrome
• Village War Memorial Centenary (2020)
• Washington Hero on HMS Ark Royal
• Washington Poppy Walk
• WW1 - Postcards
• WW1 - Washington's Volunteers
• WW1 - Welcome Home Medals
• WW2 - King's Letter / VE Day Mugs
• WW2 - Washington's Warship
• WW2 - Weapons, Warship, Wings Wks
Recommended Links
• Keith Cockerill's Slideshows
• Local Websites, Museums etc.
Not Local History!
• Something Completely Different