Hunter51
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Blue House
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I am trying to find out about the blue house on the town moor a cousin who i found in New Zealand with the help of people on this site thanks again Rootschat. her G grandfather was a tollman and lived in the blue house i wood like to find out a bit more about his job or if there is any were i can go to look at records of what he did, he is on the 1901 census Joseph Baston he was born about 1855 Thanks.
Alan...
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stanmapstone
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He could have been a Toll Collector on the old Redheugh Bridge.
Stan
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Michael Dixon
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Blue House was/is isolated building in south east corner of Dukes Moor. Today very busy road roundabout B1318 (once the A1, Great North Road) and A189 ( road up Northumberland coast)
Just in the very northern part of Newcastle's St Andrew's Parish, bordering with Gosforth St Nicholas's Parish
Occupants of Blue House would have had a good view of the horses when Newcastle Racecourse was on the very adjacent Town Moor in 1800s.
Coincidentally The Hoppings started yesterday on the Town Moor. Newcastle folk will call this, the biggest fair in Europe ( But I think Nottingham folk call their Goose Fair the biggest)
I am not certain of this but I think it would have been a double toll booth, for the north/south traffic and the east/west traffic . In any case it would have been a very busy Toll.
Tolls collected in early times was income for the Parish to finance road maintenance.
Michael Dixon
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Gadget
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As I said in Reply #3, it's about 1/4 mile from me and I'll be passing it within the next hour. I'll see if I can find anywhere to park and take a photo.
The link to the photo that I put up shows it's position very clearly.
It was one of my driving routes when I was learning to drive in the early 1970s.
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stanmapstone
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He would be unlikely to be collecting Road Tolls in 1901.
From 1663 to 1836 many British roads were improved by collecting tolls from travellers towards their maintenance. Toll houses were built beside barriers across the road, known as turnpikes, which halted the traveller for the toll to be collected. Such toll or turnpike roads had to be approved by a Private Act of Parliament, setting up a turnpike trust. Promoters also had to deposit plans of turnpikes with the county, borough or parish authorities concerned. Turnpike roads were profitable in the stagecoach era, but tolls declined with the coming of the railways. Most turnpike trusts were dissolved in the 1880s and 1890s.
http://www.buildinghistory.org/buildings/tollhouses.shtml
Stan
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stanmapstone
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Corporation Toll Collectors also collected in markets, as well as those on Redheugh Bridge
Stan
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stanmapstone
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From the OED Toll; A charge for the privilege of bringing goods for sale to a market or fair, or of setting up a stall.
Stan
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Gadget
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Talking of fairs 
As Michael said, the Hoppings started this week on the Town Moor and I forgot:
so there was nowhere to park:
but I took a photo out of the car:
The Blue House
Gadget 
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Hunter51
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Thanks to you all for your info i will send it off to New Zealand for the family over there to read thanks again, Alan...
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