The Stile Inn. Love the advert....
Out in the Sticks
Ryhope Grange Hotel.
Washington Village The Cross Keys Inn
The Traveller's Rest, East Rainton.
A wintery image of The Washington Arms (1960s).
Bird in the Bush Penshaw, now an ornamental
lake by the Wear, pulled down early 1970.
Bird In Hand Penshaw, now just wasteland and was rumoured to be Penshaw's oldest building
The Inn Between, formerly Fatfield Cooperative Store now River Bar.
The Biddick Inn. Fatfield War Memorial is still in its original position on top of Worm Hill first of four bars on the road.
Bonemill Lane and North Biddick Working Men's Club - forerunner of today's North Biddick Club.
The Ferry Boat Inn. This site is crossed by Chartershaugh
Bridge - the A182 Washington Highway to Shiney Row.
The Havelock Arms, Fatfield.
The George Inn on Bonemill Lane.
The New Found Out Inn at High Usworth - just to the east of The Blue Bell. Mr Halton's pub closed in 1932.
The Red Lion pub on Peareth Hall Road,High \usworth.
Blue Bell Inn at High Usworth still going.
The Spout Lane known
locally as The Steps.
The Miners Rest on Spout Lane.
Early photo of The Board inn,
Herrington before additions.
The Wheatsheaf, believed to be the oldest building in Shiney Row.
The Oddfellow's Arms Shiney Row now a restaurant
Eighton Banks The Lambton Arms in 1974.
The Robbie Burns, Houghton, now only sells coffee.
The Stackyard Herrington, still going strong (I hope)
Golden Fleece Silksworth originally The Wynyard
The Perseverance Arms, boarded up for years
still standing, but it was a poor choice of name.
Jolly Potter pub in Newbottle
Sun Inn, Newbottle, also still going.
Newbottle Workingmen's club, still ganning
The Blue Bell Ryhope
The Newcastle Arms, Houghton-Le-Spring.
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Spout Lane: Washington and District C.I.U. Club, later, The Teachers Private Club. Next time you pass, check
the plaque on the left-hand side. Says 'New Road 1872'.
Oddfellows Arms Cox Green.
Washington Village, The Commercial Hotel (later it became The Washington Arms.
Mark Hughes' Grand'da strolling along a snowy Bonemill Lane in front of the Biddick Inn, The other buildings are now long gone.
The Victoria Hotel - corner of
Fatfield Road & Oxclose Road.
A snowy Victoria Hotel, many years later - with
new façade. The Queens Cinema is on the right
The Black Bush Inn on Village Lane on it's own. Note Washington Glebe Colliery in the background.
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The residence on the left is the former Royal William pub. That's the Earl of Durham on the right. Note the paddle steamer.
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The Westwood Working Men's Club (CIU) on Station
Road - before the addition of the concert hall.
The Olde Ships Inn, East Rainton.
The Board Inn today.
A forlorn looking Foresters Arms. Known locally as 'The Middle House'. Later renamed 'Last Orders'
Canny crowd waiting for The Stile Inn to open.
The Coach & Horses public house on Coach Road
Estate - very little left of the sign on the wall up over.
The Waggon Inn - under construction c.1900
The Speculation Inn on Front Street. Known to the regulars as 'The Spec'
Just around the corner. Penshaw Monument, Usworth Aerodrome. The Three Horse Shoes Pub and the road (heading right) to Boldon & South Shields.
The New Inn Corner - viewed from Victoria Road.
The Three Horse Shoes Pub today. The old No.62 bus
route to South Shields is just visible beyond the pub.
The Blue Bell High Usworth today.
Left to Right the original Usworth Working Men's Club, Woodland Terrace & Usworth Gardeners' Club.
The New Style Inn! Note the 'No Through Road Sign'. The main road to Sunderland, via Usworth Station is now behind the pub
The new Usworth Top Club premises at Sulgrave opposite St. Michael's Church.
The Ship at Penshaw and directly opposite was The Seven Stars pub, now a house.
Shiney Row and The Shoulder Of Mutton.
The Grey Horse, Penshaw today.
Golden Lion.Houghton, now a restaurant.but still standing.
The Prospect at Penshaw, early days.
Shiney Row The Traveller's Rest recently re-opened after a good few years closed.
The Prospect at Penshaw as it is today.
Situated on Village Lane in Old Penshaw Village, The Monument was once called The Ship.
The Mill, Houghton-Le-Spring.
Railway Inn at Ryhope, still going.
The Burn, Houghton-Le-Spring.
An earlier pic of the Railway Inn, Ryhope, a delivery perhaps?
Whitheugh Inn or Garden House at South Hylton
Emergency services fighting the fire at the Golden Lion pub in South Hylton.
Thankfully re-opened.
