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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 - PG10
• Havannah Terrace - PG6
• 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 - PG15
• 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 - PG15
• 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 This Website
• About, Copyright etc.
• Comments
• Meet the Editor
... When I'm Editing Something
• Visitors by Country - April 2020
The Photo Gallery
• Local Images in Geographical Order
• Teams - Local Sport
Church Documents Etc.
• Churches & Chapels (Quick Reference)
High Usworth Holy Trinity Church
• Marriages (1837-1982)
• War Memorials (Transcript)
• Rev. Alexander Begg and Son
Our Lady Immaculate RC Church
• Catholic Institute Penny Token
• Centenary Booklet
• Images Inside & Out
Saint Michael & All Angels Church
• Baptisms
• Mothers' Union
Washington Holy Trinity Church
• Church History
• Robert & Mary Lee Memorial Window
• 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
... Hero / Fatality / Flood (Press Cuttings)
... Fossilised Tree
• Pit Baths
• Pitmatic - NE Miners' Language
• Pneumoconiosis
• Springwell Colliery (Brief History)
• T. H. Cann, Aged Miners' Homes
• Usworth Colliery - Coal to Wardley
• Usworth Colliery Photo Gallery
... 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 Mining Community
... Usworth Colliery / Waterloo
... Usworth Green - The Prefabs
... Usworth Park / Station Road
• Victoria Bridge Railway Connections
• Victorian Photo Cards (Maps: R. Wear)
• Villages & Industrial Estates (1974)
• Washington (1702)
• Washington (1768)
• 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
• 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 & 1925
• 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)
Paintings, Postcards & Plates Etc.
Keith Cockerill's Postcard Collections
• Fatfield / Harraton
• Springwell
... Misc. Colour Locations (Renovated)
... Paintings (Along the River Wear)
... Plates (Six Local Scenes)
... Victorian Photo Cards (River Wear)
... WW1 Collection
• Penshaw Monument
... including articles by Paul Lanagan
• Phone Book Listings (1939)
• Popular Pages (Good place to start!)
• Pub Crawl
... Cross Keys Landlords / Ladies
• Residents, Lists of (1939, plus House Nos)
• River Wear - Coxgreen Boat (Perseverance)
River Wear Walks
... (Wetlands, South Hylton Bridge, Coxgreen)
... (Fatfield Bridge - Coxgreen)
... (Lambton Park on Lambton Estate - Leaflet)
• River Wear Videos (By Keith Cockerill)
• Scouts, Cubs & Guides
• 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
... The Avenue
... Blue House Lane
... Front Street
... Heworth Road
... Peareth Hall Road
... Spout Lane
... Usworth Station Road
... Victoria Road
... Village Lane
... Washington Station Road
• Sulgrave Village & Tube Investments
• Usworth Aerodrome
• Usworth Election Leaflet (1913)
• Usworth - Mystery Chimney (1920s)
• Usworth Top Club
... Wine Tasting Night
• Usworth Unemployed Centre (1930s)
• 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
... Neal, Spencer & Weddle
... 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 (plus Donwell Jnrs)
• King's Letter / VE Day Mugs
• Saint Bede's
• Saint Joseph's
• Springwell Primary
• Susan Peareth's
• Usworth Board (later, Unemployed Centre)
• Usworth Colliery Juniors / Infants
... Reunion Notice 1948
• Usworth Colliery Seniors
... Prize Winners 1963

• Usworth Secondary (Heworth Road)
• Washington Glebe
... Staff, Classes, Teams etc. (5 Pages)
... The Glebian Magazine (1950)
The School on Spout Lane
• Washington Council School
• Washington Secondary School
... 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:
• 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
... 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
... Durham, Newcastle, Sunderland
... Penshaw Railway Station
... Victoria Viaduct
Commemorative Mug
Graffiti / Vandalism
Railway Connections
... Vigo Lane Bridge
... Washington Railway Station
• Castle Street
• Cinemas
• Factories: RCA Records & Subbuteo
• Farm Collection
... High, Middle & Low Barmston
( Barmston Riverside Article )
... Dunkirk Farm
... Glebe Farm,
... Havannah House Farm
... High Usworth Farms
... High Washington Farm
... Hillthorn Farm
... Usworth Manor House Farm
• Harraton Old Pits (Maps)
• Mark Scott's Shop
• On The Buses / Bus Routes
• Peacock's of Eighton Banks
• 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)
• Post-War Street Parties
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 Weeks
Recommended Links
• Keith Cockerill's Slideshows
• Local Websites, Museums etc.
Not Local History!
• Something Completely Different