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fred111
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Census information Crown Copyright, from www.nationalarchives.gov.uk
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I am directing this request to the local Blyth Man, Michael, if he doesn't mind. but please anyone feel free to add any info
Having seen the comprehensive information engendered by Savvitri's request about the Rows, I wonder if I can find out about Seghill Rows, which could not have been too far away.
I have found family living in Victoria Row 1841, Colliery Row 1851, Burn Row 1861,
Barras Row 1861, Leans Row 1861, Church Row 1861 and (lovely!) Spice Cake Row 1871 in Seghill.
Also Lane Row in Hazelrigg and South Row and Second Row in Bedlington.
Is there any map or plan with these Rows shown? Or any photographs, plans or drawings.
Were the houses all the same, with the same accommodation?
Are there any photos of 'old' Seghill?
Thanks in advance.
Liz
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CARTER Newcastle
CRAIG RENNIE WATSON JAQUES & JAKES WARDLAW TWIZZELL BRASS NICHOLSON SUMMERVILLE ARCHER LEARMOUTH NELLESS ANDERSON BOAG SLAYTER NELSON HARDY RICHARDSON CHICKEN LOWDON BROWN LAWTON Northumberland
CALVIN DEMPSEY LYNN Antrim
NELLESS, YOUNGHUSBAND GREEN SCOTT DIXON Durham
PENRITH Penrith
BANTICK HUBBARD CARTER Suffolk
LYNN UNICK CROW ASHERCRAFT JOHNSON CRAWFORD LOWDEN USA
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Michael Dixon
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Liz,
What sort of era are you interested in.... some rows changed names as they were extended, also the quality of the housing changed with time..
e.g. the early houses of Bebside Colliery, from 1850s, had an earth floor and an upstairs but no stairs, only a ladder. ( Have a look into the query posted by cavytri called "Double Row" which on 27th May holds info on miners housing.
In 1870s the Newcastle Weekly Chronicle published a two year series of articles, entitled "Our Colliery Villages", a sort of travelogue of about 100 colliery villages. The Bedlington Article was published 19 April 1873..
a snippet... "A walk along the back of the row we notice that that every house has a privy to itself and half a good sized ash-pit. A projection from the side of each house indicates a pantry, and a proper wooden staircase (none of your perilous ladders) indicates an upper story"......
The hundred or so articles have been extracted from the newspaper and put into a complete set, by Newcastle City library... not online.
And just in case you are getting the wrong idea about about standard of housing, let me say there was no romance about the "raws".... my birth-cottage in Bebside colliery was demolished c 1952 ( I still remember vermin infestations- everbody had a cat- no water, no electicity, outdoor "earth closet" and worse )
Your Bedlington rows.... with which actual pit were they connected ?
Michael Dixon
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Areas. Co Sligo, Co Leitrim, Co Mayo. IRELAND.
Ontario, CANADA
Lowell, Ma, USA
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nort
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Liz,there is a book called "Seghill Rings and Legends" by Liz King.It has some old photos of the village and pit.According to it Spice Cake Row was so called because back then there was only one communal oven and the housewives had to take turns to bake their spice cakes and bread !The row was demolished in 1965 but Beamish Museum have the street nameplate.
Steve
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