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Wilden Terrace
Wilden Terrace
Washington Chemical Works seen from Penshaw Monument - 1972.
[ Thanks to Photographer & Contributor: Stafford Linsley. Picture date: December 1972 ]
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A Mystery at Arthur's Place!
Wilden Terrace: Only a couple of houses - 1972. Evidence of a Nasty Crime at Arthur's Place?
The Road to the right leads to Washington Station Road, via the Railway Bridges
Click: 'Overhead View - 1926', below.
[ Photographer & Contributor: Stafford Linsley. Picture date: December 1972 ]
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COMMENTS
1. The top half of Wilden Terrace comprised Flats, and the bottom half, Houses.
2. Wilden Terrace was knocked down beginning at the Washington Station end of the street.
3. Washington Fire Brigade held outdoor drills in the derelict buildings before they were demolished.
4. There was a Grocery Shop half-way up Wilden Terrace, Finley's. See thumbnail below.
5. A family called Gilroy lived in the bottom house of Wilden Terrace (two gable end windows).
6. The bricked-up building in Arthur's Place was once a Post Office; it later housed the Lee family.
[ Thanks to Jean Potts ]
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Top Picture: Zoomed-in
Note the Gable End Windows.
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Overhead View - 1926
Hunter's Loo-y Bus
Finley's Shop
Kids In Back Street
Old Road To River Wear
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Then & Now Maps
Note the Red Cross on the O.S. 1937-61 Map and its position on the footpath in the up-to-date Street Map
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Wilden Terrace & Arthur's Place
( The Site In August 2018 )
The Underpass beneath Pattinson Road - looking up the path from Cox Green to Washington Station
Arthur's Place stood in the bottom-right corner of this photograph.
[ Photo: J.G. 25th August 2018 ]
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