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Secret Room: 46A Newbottle Street, Houghton-le-Spring
Local lady, Dianne Gray, recently moved into 46A Newbottle Street, an upper floor flat. She found a mysterious hatch in the floor - and called in Houghton Heritage Society to investigate.
These photographs show the secret mezzanine room that was discovered between 46 and 46A Newbottle Street!
46 Newbottle Street, Houghton-le-Spring (West side)
1914 -- Carter & Co, house furnishers.
1948 -- Hodgson's, electrical engineers.
1954 -- Advert -- Hodgsons, est 1920, electrical, radio and television (address not stated).
1961 -- Advert -- Hodgsons, electrical.
1962 -- Advert - Hodgsons, electrical, radio and television engineers and contractors.
1966 - Sign Post Church Magazine Advert -- Hodgson's Ltd (Property number not give), Tel: 3164, Est. 1919.
1982 -- photo -- Visionhire.
2009 -- Marie Curie Cancer Care (had been there a while).
2013 -- Photo Survey (26/07/13) -- Marie Curie Cancer Care. A door to the right of the shop is numbered as 46A.
Lozenge Pill Box, Herrington Hill, Houghton-le-Spring, April 2014
A visit to the WWII lozenge Pill Box on Herrington Hill, Houghton-le-Spring, in April 2014. Find out more about Houghton-le-Spring during the War at:
Journey to Houghton-le-Spring through Houghton Cut
A journey to Houghton-le-Spring starting at Stoneygate on the A690, passing Over the Hill Farm and down through Houghton Cut into Houghton's town centre. We then depart from the back of Houghton Methodist Church, past the Co-Op and loop around Houghtonside Estate back on to the A690 and a journey north with views of the fields next to Over the Hill Farm once again.
Houghton Colliery Railway (Route), Houghton-le-Spring
A walk along the old route of the Houghton-le-Spring colliery railway, May 2013. The walk starts at the east end of the colliery site and follows the sidings and main road to Grasswell and ends at Coaley Lane. The colliery's private railway line was connected to the North Eastern Railway at Penshaw and Fence Houses in 1870 and was in use until its closure in 1975 when coal was then transported to the washers by lorries. The tracks are, of course, long gone. The modern setting passes houses at Grasswell (including the Sunniside Farm Caravan Site for Showpeople), the Homelands Estate (passing North Row, Middle Row, South Row and Hawthorn Street), Newbottle Primary School and the children's playground before we end at Coaley Lane, where the railway would have continued on to the mainline.
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Multibreed division at Eggborough
1st part of the multibreed divisions at the Yorkshire Bouncers Tournament held at Eggborough, 29th May, 2006. Look out for Scooby, the rescued Staffy cross in the last couple of races. His owners have worked so hard to overcome his problems and its good to see him succed.
PIGLETTTS!
baby pigs at tweddle farm, sorry if its a little wobbly - cameras and piglets dont go well.
Houghton-le-Spring Hillside Cemetery: A Visit on a Sunny Day
A visit to Houghton-le-Spring's Hillside Cemetery, next to Houghton Cut, on a sunny day in July 2013. Affectionately known to locals as the 'Old Cem', Houghton's Hillside Cemetery was originally known as the 'New Cemetery' when it opened in 1854 following a cholera outbreak the year before.
St Michael & All Angels' churchyard in the centre of Houghton had become full and a new burial ground was needed. The Rector, Rev John Grey, proposed that the new church cemetery be situated on glebe land next to Houghton Cut at the top of Sunderland Street. A public outcry followed as the proposed site had once been a quarry!
Houghton Hillside Cemetery was consecrated on September 4th 1854 by the Bishop of Exeter and over 7,000 burials took place there. Burials dwindled over the years with the last on record being in 1971. The Cemetery was officially closed for new interments in 2005 by Order of the Privy Council.
2129 - Convenience Store Business For Sale in Houghton Le Spring Tyne and Wear
2129 - Convenience Store Business For Sale in Houghton Le Spring Tyne and Wear
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Convenience Store Business For Sale in Houghton Le Spring Tyne and Wear
Houghton Le Spring, Tyne and Wear, England
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Preferred Commercial is pleased to offer for sale this busy convenience store, which has been in our clients' careful hands since 1988 and which is only now offered to the market due to a change in our clients' circumstances. The premises consist of two semi-detached houses converted to one large property and boasts 6-bedroom owners' accommodation along with an open-plan sales area and large rear yard. The business stocks a wide range of convenience items including newspapers, magazines, groceries, alcohol and tobacco and also offers Pay Point facilities and lottery tickets. There is an ATM within the premises, which is owned by the business. Our clients' have established a loyal customer base and, as there are no parking restrictions to the front of the building, draw trade from passing traffic. The business currently trades seven days per week and generates a turnover in the region of £572,000 per annum with a gross profit of 22%. The new owner could, if desired, convert the first floor living accommodation into two self-contained units, which could be rented out to create additional income. We have been advised there is a small parcel of land to the rear of the premises, which could be suitable for a car park and which may be available by separate negotiation. This is an ideal opportunity to acquire a busy convenience store in a good trading position with much potential. Early negotiations with Preferred Commercial are highly recommended.
Houghton-le-Spring's Hillside: A Look at the Flora
A look at the flora of Houghton-le-Spring's magnesian limestone hillside during Houghton Heritage Society's 2nd annual litter pick in May 2016. We see cowslips and bluebells.
Avalanche Risk at Houghton Cut (A690) - March 2018
Footage showing the exhausting work of the Tyne & Wear Fire & Rescue Service who attempted to carve off huge chunks of snow and ice which threatened to avalanche onto the A690 at Houghton Cut, Houghton-le-Spring. The team was using coal cutting equipment but after very slow progress abandoned the attempt. The snow and ice was left to thaw and a lane of the road remained closed.
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the scoundrels @ the copt hill, houghton le spring - may 16th 2010.MP4
the copt hill, houghton le spring - may 16th
Our day out at tweddle farm
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British stretcher bearers carry a wounded comrade across a deep trench during World War I, in France.
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MALPAS CHESHIRE 2007
MALPAS CHESHIRE 2007
Many years ago, i visited a charming old market / coaching town that has won the best kept village award many times, which i read about in an old AA village guide around 1996, i have vistied the old village twice and this was the last time in 2007. This is what the AA book of villages said.
In nornam french, Malpas means 'a difficult passage', and this referred to the route which ran down the hotly disputed border between chesire and Wales near which the village stands. the green mound behind the church, on the hill in the centre of the village, was the site of a small norman castle, built to keep out the welsh. the winding Streets meet at the village cross, perched atop a flight of steps just below the red sanstone church. all around the black and white cottages and georgian houses. in the middle ages the landowners were the Breretons later, part of the village passed to the cholmondeleys. who in the 18 century built the almshouses which have survived.
The villages most famous son was Bishop reginald heber, who wrote the hyms holy, holy, holy and from grenland's icy mountains. He was born in the rectory in 1783 and eventually became bishop of Calcutta.
and this is a slideshow of my visit in 2007.
Flooding, power outages, and trees down around Indian Lake, NY (4k)
November 1st into 2nd, near hurricane-force gales and massive downpours triggered a multi-county emergency in the Adirondacks and beyond. In their wake, they left a nightmare trail of thousands of downed trees, disabled power lines and blacked-out communities. Roads, basements, even some living-rooms were flooded. The net effect: We were all reminded it pays to be as prepared as possible.
Nymph Fishing Basics for Trout
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Gloucester Fun Fair Video Montage 2011
A video montage of the Gloucester Fun Fair, July and August 2011. If your on Facebook, why not check out the group Fun Fairs UK, for fun fair listings, photos, discussions and more!
The Ghostly Witness
The Ghostly Witness
Annie Walker and her cousin
Shared the self-same bed,
She bore a child within her womb
But he would not be wed.
So William Walker took a pick
And cleaved her pretty head,
And in a mineshaft dank and cold
He let her grisly body mould
And swore that she was dead.
A Miller worked, a-grinding corn,
An honest man but poor,
When all at once dead Annie Walker
Stepped in through his door.
Her head was fairly cleaved in twain
And dripped with brains and gore.
Her hair was wet and hanging down
And blood-bespattered was her gown,
A-dripping on the floor.
Her blue lips parted and she spoke,
Her tongue was black with grime,
Oh Walker did away with me,
Murdered in my prime!
His boots, besmeared with clotted blood
He left outside the mine.
He dragged me down into the hole,
My corpse decays amid the coal,
My bones leach into lime!
The Miller quaked with mortal fear,
Why hast thou come to me?
His feet were frozen to the floor
Though he was wont to flee.
The corpse said, Justice I require,
And leave it up to thee!
I'll haunt thee, Miller, taunt thee nightly
Until they bind up Walker tightly
And hang him from a tree!
He knelt to wash away the clots
Congealing on the floor,
But as he scrubbed, the dead girl's blood
Returned in gouts of cruor,
And fast the Miller ran away
Across the misty moor.
She followed hard upon his trail
And clutched him with her fingers pale
And harrassed him the more.
He went unto the magistrate
And made the matter plain;
He told how Walker used his pick
And left poor Annie slain.
They found the body in the mine
The skull pierced to the brain,
Limbs akimbo, neck awry,
And Walker's boots were stashed nearby
Besmirched with bloody stains.
There is a gibbet on a tree,
And Walker's hanging there.
His eyes are fixed on Annie's grave
With dull and sightless stare;
The ravens watch his twitching corpse
And pluck his lanky hair.
In tufts they pull it from the roots,
And all because he left his boots
Beside his cousin fair.
Words by Giles Watson, Music by Kathryn Wheeler. Legend, with some basis in fact, associated with the coal mining communities of Framwellgate Moor and Chester-le-Street, County Durham. J.W. Dickenson's Further Tales of Old Durham, 1988.