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Maternity Hospital
I had my son in Little Thorpe maternity hospital in Jan 1985. Does anyone out there have a photograph of this building or do you know where I could get one from? I am researching my family tree and would like a photograph of this hospital for my photographic evidence.
Before the birth of my second son in 1987 it was closed down, I had him in Camerons in Hartlepool soon after the building was knocked down.
Please can any one help?
A memory of Littlethorpe contributed by Karen Surtees
Seaside Lane
Would anyone happen to remember Robert and Dorothy Adamson who resided at Easington Colliery, Seaside Lane?
A memory of Easington Colliery contributed by Davinia Hart
Miner 1984-85 Strike
The Photograph above has never changed much from then to even now 2007. to the right as you look at the photograph ( I with my husband jeff and my two sons lived behind the shops). Mr Snowdon had his shop along with his son who took over his business when he died he sold his shop years later it was about the third shop from the bottom on the right side as you look at the photograph. This shopkeeper was one of many people that helped the miners during the strike.
. The pit was at the bottom of that road. The pit is not there any more it closed in 1993. This was a sad time and worrying ...read more here
A memory of Easington Colliery contributed by Karen Surtees
Miners 1984-85 strike
Not long into married life we both walked into a miners strike that lasted until 1985. This was very hard having to adjust to married life and without no money because of the strike we both lost our first home. Soon after the strike started i became pregnant with my first son Graham I became pregnant with him in the strike and gave birth in the strike we struggled to buy prams and cots and other essentials for a baby With the help of my dear grand parents we came through this difficult period. Soon after the strike we went into a colliery house as we lost our first home due to not been able to pay the morgage. Both my ...read more here
A memory of Easington Colliery contributed by Karen Surtees
Extracts From Easington & County Durham books
Stockton was granted its market charter by Bishop Bek in 1310, but until the 1840s it consisted of little more than the High Street, a few side streets, and a quayside railhead for Stockton & Darlington Railway. On the right can be seen the parish church, which dates from 1712. Other 18th-century buildings were the Town House (1735) and the Customs House (1730).
An extract from from"County Durham Photographic Memories".
Billingham owes its development to the Great War, when a small chemical works opened nearby for the production of synthetic ammonia for use in explosives. Between the wars the population of Billingham rocketed as the works was expanded for the production of methanol, chemical fertilisers, and petrochemicals. The town centre was redeveloped from the late 1950s by Elder Lester & Partners; the Forum opened in 1967.
An extract from from"County Durham Photographic Memories".
In the 1950s Greatham consisted of little more than the High Street. In 1272 the Prior of Finchale founded a charity and a hospital here for ‘decayed priests’; the local vicar was usually appointed Master. Today the aged and needy do not necessarily have to have been clerics or their widows in order to benefit.
An extract from from"County Durham Photographic Memories".
The Green was, and still is, one of the more picturesque parts of Seaton Carew; the houses were mostly built in the early 19th century. In the corner, with the steep bargeboarded gables, stands Sylvern House, dating from 1864.
An extract from from"County Durham Photographic Memories".
Six miles from Durham and twelve miles from Darlington, Ferryhill was only a hamlet until the development of Dean & Chapter Colliery. With the colliery came rows of miners’ housing, such as those in Stephenson Street, Bessemer Street, Rennie Street, Davy Street, and Newton Street. By the eve of the Great War there were about 49,000 tied miners’ houses in the county housing 260,000 people, or 20 per cent of the county’s population.
An extract from from"County Durham Photographic Memories".