Houghton Cut. with thanks to Napoleonic P.O.W.'s.
Usworth station, LNER Class A4 4902 'Seagull' sister of the Mallard .
David Bellamy at Penshaw Monument on 13th April, 1987. R.I.P.
View to Fatfield from Penshaw Station, May 1965
Girdle Cake Ccottage.
Old Penshaw and the street has hardly changed.
Looking north along the single island platform at Penshaw second station on 22 September 1924
North Biddick Colliery. Note the Wagonway curving down to the pit yard from the right.
Taken from Fatfield Bridge looking west (up-river), Fatfield riverside can be seen on the right and the buildings on the far left are at Chatershaugh ,
Brady Square. Steam engine taking empty coal wagons to either Washington Glebe Colliery or Washington 'F' Colliery.
Victoria Viaduct and North Biddick Colliery
Victoria Viaduct with train crossing again .
Fafield School 1907.
Ryhope Railway Station.
Power Station, Voltage Terrace, Philadelphia, Houghton Le Spring, took some years ago...
Penshaw Station Bridge.
Very early photo of Houghton Cut.
The three lads up a height are where Tollington Scott of Fatfield fell off trying to save his mate who managed to stay on.
The market place at Houghton-le-Spring.
Old Row Usworth.
Thompson's Vicarage Farm, Silksworth.
South Hylton, the old piggeries.
South Hylton From the north-side.
Hylton Ferry 1890 and the original Golden Lion.
Hylton Ferry again from the north.
Entrance to stairs inside one of the pillars at Penshaw Monument.
The Fatfield War Memorial on Worm Hill before it was damaged in a severe gale. .
Inside Penshaw column. looking up.
Old door on top of Penshaw Monument
Looking towards South Hylton station.
Southwick green, late 19th Century.
Southwick Green, last century.
Stoney Lane, Southwick.
Evictions in Quarry street, Silksworth,1891
Worm Hill and The Lambton Worm adjoining.
The view across the top of the viaduct, looking south.
Victoria Bridge refuge point grafittied 1934 commemorative plaque.it reads Victoria Viaduct,Completed 28th June 1838,
Thomas Elliot Harrison Engineer
Springwell Village. As far outlying as it gets..
Looking down from the Victoria Viaduct.
Leamside line underpass,Fatfield, in the park by the looks of it.
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Westbourne Terrace (Shiney Row Front Street) back in the 1920s
Coffin Row Shiney Row, now a roundabout.