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My Gateshead friends want there photo collections seen so why not?. This is 'Allhusen's Chemical Works' in 1910 |
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The banks of the river Tyne at Felling was a hive of Industry in the 1800s. This old photo shows the old Chemical Works in those days |
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This is a rare photo of the village called 'Felling Shore' on the edge of the river Tyne just along from Bill Quay. |
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Another view of the long gone village of 'Felling Shore' probably pre 1920s |
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Kevin Blair our Shipping Expert from Hebburn tells me this ship is the Bergen Line's 'Meteor' passing Felling Shore in 1925 |
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An early photograph of Harrison's little shipyard at Bill Quay. This yard was formerly Boutlands building wooden vessels a hundred yrs earlier |
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Outside the Wardley Hotel (Which is still there today) in a horse drawn carriage in about 1920 |
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The 'John Pit' in production in 1930 a year or two before it closed. Steam drove the steam engine for lifting the Cage up & down the pit shaft |
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A beautiful old photo of Felling 'John Pit' miners in 1890. The little boy could also have worked at the Pit as thousands of children did then. |
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Stone built houses on Heworth Lane around 1896 . The lane ran from where the Maiden Over is towards the river |
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Pelaw Main Staiths in 1900 between Bill Quay & Hebburn. That area of riverside was our playground as kids. |
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Another rare photo of Felling Shore Village with the Zinc Oxide Factory clinging to the riverside |
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