A Stroll Up

Blue House Lane

New Rows Chapel to Wellbank Road

New Rows Chapel

New Rows Chapel at the Junction of Victoria Road, Blue House Lane and Heworth Road

We'll now turn left from Victoria Road and head West up Blue House Lane.

Looking Back to the Junction

Heworth Road ( turn left )  -   Victoria Road ( turn right )

New Rows Chapel ( off-picture, centre-left )  -  The Ritz Cinema ( off-picture, bottom-right )

Construction of New By-Pass & Roundabout

Note: Trustee Savings Bank, New Rows Chapel & Dodds Off-Licence.

Van turning into Blue House Lane from Victoria Road

Dodds Off-Licence   -   'F' Pit Heap gone!

The Lady and Child are approaching Dodd's Shop and The Ritz Cinema.

Note the Two Garages and the large Electricity Substation.   That's High Usworth on the Horizon.

Looking left from the Entrance to Blue House Lane

The Ritz and Jonty Black's Cinema Shop

Victoria Road Shopping Centre, 1955

View from Junction with Heworth Road and Blue House Lane.
[ Francis Frith Collection ]

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Blue House Lane Garage - 1950s

Looking Back to Blue House Lane Garage

Behind the Cars: Path into Glendale Avenue  -  Morris Street in the Background.

Washington Brickworks

Between Blue House Lane and Washington 'F' Colliery
Note the Electricity Substation, over the Road.  Blue House Lane Garage is off-picture to its right.

Washington 'F' Colliery ' Landsale '

Sited between Washington Brickworks and the ' Pit Road Ends '..
Coal left the Colliery by Train along the Washington Wagonway to The Leamside Line at Washington Station.
This is where coal left by lorry.   The 'Dales Housing Estate' is off-picture, right.

The ' Pit Road Ends '

A little further West of the Brickworks - where the 'F' Pit Road joins Blue House Lane.
Note the Winding Engine House - today's Washington 'F' Pit Museum.
The Old Colliery Road is now called Albany Way.

Edna Felton

having passed T. H. Cann Aged Miners' Homes,
is approaching 'The Pit Road Ends' junction.

Looking past the Aged Miners' Homes and the Junction with Wellbank Road

Continue up the Bank to 'Blue House' and Havannah Terrace.

Tom Corrigan & Grandkids

in the garden of his house on Blue House Lane - 1961
[ Thanks to Maureen James ]

Looking Back Again

T. H. Cann Aged Miners' Homes to the large Electricity Substation - opposite 'The Pit Road Ends'.

The Junction with Wellbank Road

Leading to Great / High Usworth.

Map of  Blue House Lane - 1921

Blue House Lane  -  Wellbank Road  -  Village Lane  -  Washington Colliery Road

The 'Picture Theatre' is The Alexandra (later, Regal Cinema).  The Ritz Cinema is yet to be built.

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