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Two Gateshead streets
« on: Friday 26 October 07 20:53 BST (UK) »
I have come across two Gateshead streets on a certificate in 1936: one is Raeburn Gardens, and the other is Westminster Street.
If someone knows Gateshead well can he or she tell me if those streets have changed much since that time or are they much the same as they were many years ago? Have the houses been demolished and replaced or are they survivors of that period and beyond?
Are they two quite different areas or much the same and near each other?
Any comments on those two streets would be much appreciated.
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Re: Two Gateshead streets
« Reply #1 on: Friday 26 October 07 22:05 BST (UK) »
Go To http://gis.durham.gov.uk/website/interMAP/viewer.htm and do a co-ordinate search
Raeburn Gardens is 426852, 561451
Westminster Street is 424967, 561711
Both streets appear to be unchanged from 1936. If you go to Google Earth you can see an aerial photograph.


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Re: Two Gateshead streets
« Reply #2 on: Friday 26 October 07 22:08 BST (UK) »
Thank you, Stan. That is good to hear. I will do that straightaway.
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« Reply #3 on: Friday 26 October 07 22:22 BST (UK) »
Am I right in placing Westminster Street in Bensham? Is Raeburn  Gardens in Carr Hill? Would these have been rural in 1936 or an urban extension of Gateshead?
I welcome Stan's idea of the map of the areas, but I should like to know more detail about the streets and their districts way back in the 1930s-1950s.
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« Reply #4 on: Friday 26 October 07 22:30 BST (UK) »
If you go to the site I gave you can look at the historic maps of the area and see how it has changed.

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« Reply #5 on: Friday 26 October 07 23:02 BST (UK) »
Thank you, Stan, for the very useful co-ordinates and the maps showing the changes over the decades.
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« Reply #6 on: Tuesday 06 November 07 14:40 GMT (UK) »
Hi Alex

I was familiar with no. 15 Westminster Street in the 1940's.

It was on a slight incline leading down to Saltwell Road.The street was made up with Terrace flats and a back lane. The road was cobbled with grey black oblong cobblestones about the size of a brick. There was a very very small garden surrounded by a brick wall (which I used to walk on as a child) which I believe belonged to the downstairs flats.
On the corner of one side of the road adjoining Saltwell Road was a sweet shop (it may have even been a newsagents but I only remember the sweets). There were a couple of other small shops on  the opposite corner of the road but my memory fails me as to what they were.

The street really was in two halves, traversed  by Rawling Road in the middle and ending at Rectory Road. Number 15 was on the right hand side going down, very near to Saltwell Road.
Hope this gives you a picture.

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Re: Two Gateshead streets
« Reply #7 on: Tuesday 06 November 07 17:40 GMT (UK) »
Hello, Anna
I am so pleased to hear from you as I was starting to think no-one out there would give any detail on those streets. How interesting about the shops.
I wonder if you remember a bakery near by run by a Master Baker named Paterson. Would you please reply to my own e-mail address, and perhaps I could ask you a couple of specific questions about Westminster Street?
Thank you and kind regards,
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