Hedley Steet Sunderland Completed

[Stalbridge]

Hedley St Sunderland

I have just begun to investigate family history. My mother once lived in number 70 Hedley St. I can see from current maps that this street no longer exists and that new buildings have been erected on the site. Can anyone tell me when and why Hedley St was demolished when so many other old strrets around it remain untouched? What has been built there?

[stanmapstone]

You can see what has been built there on http://www.rootschat.com/links/0bm2/

Hedley Street in East Millfield was demolished under Sunderland Corporation's slum clearance programme. Most of the rest of Millfield was also scheduled for demolition but opposition by the resident's association, and their secretary Norman Dennis, forced a re-examination of the plans and the clearance was halted, and grants made available for the purchase and improvement of the houses. I understand the demolition in East Millfield started in the late 1960s

See http://www.telegraph.co.uk/news/obituaries/politics-obituaries/8279688/Norman-Dennis.html
Stan

[Stalbridge]

Many thanks for the information and the link to obituary for Norman Denis. Also for info about the brass foundries which I can follow up. As such a fount of information you may also be able to help with a galvanising works  located by the bridge?

[stanmapstone]

The galvanizers would be Harrison & Forster, Bonners Field

Stan

[Stalbridge]

Dear Stan

Could I ask you to help with a Galvanisers near Alexandra Bridge circa 1900? I think this is more likely to have been the area I need for place of employment of great grandfather Thomas McKie. Your links to the trade directories are invaluable. I presume that the 1894 Directory to which you refer is only available from another source? Perhaps it is in your own personal possession or you are able to view it somewhere? Many thanks for all of your replies.

[stanmapstone]

Although I have my own disc, Whellan's 1894 Directory is available at http://www.tomorrows-history.com/public_item.php?collection=179&item=4300&flag=P You can zoom in to see the pages.

Stan

[stanmapstone]

Harrison & Forster are the only specific galvanizers listed for Sunderland, perhaps it was a firm that did galvanizing but is listed under another category.

Stan

[Wearsider]

In more recent times the galvanisers at the south side of the Queen Alexandra Bridge were known as 'National Galvanisers' but I am not aware of when the name change came about.

Wearsider.

[stanmapstone]

The only galvanizers in Sunderland in the 1914 Directory are Harrison & Forster, Bonner's Field. National Galvanizers, Limited, were in Pallion New Road, in 1921

Stan