Hedley Steet Sunderland Completed

[seekinghistory]

Fascinating info about Hedley Street, Sunderland and surrounding area. It looks like it was a huge street but what kind of houses were they - I have seen somewhere that they were single storey cottages - is this correct. I had an idea that they might have been big old run down houses, overcrowded and run down, looking about the period of 1900.

Does any one know if there are any old photos and where I can see them?

[stanmapstone]

Welcome to RootsChat.
This is Google Street View of Millburn Street, which was next to Hedley Street and could be the same type of house although there have been many alterations over the years.
https://goo.gl/maps/fdrGBTDfuZ12
Aerial view https://goo.gl/maps/eaxAWfjjNCC2
Stan

[stanmapstone]

Looking at the 1911 census Hedley Street seems to have been a mixture of single and multiple occupancy houses.
There is a photo of Hedley Street on page 62 0f the book at http://www.rootschat.com/links/01lhz/
Stan

[seekinghistory]

Great information on Hedley Street especially the links to the photos - many thanks

[seekinghistory]

My gt grandmother supposedly worked in a tobacconist shop along the Sunderland docks area - she lived in Hedley St so I am assuming it was the Deptford area of the  docks?
She allegedly met my gt grandfather whose ship was docked along that way in about 1900, does anyone know if there were shops of this kind along or near the docks and if a tobacconist shop existed there?

Where would I get a list of such small businesses in that area from?

[stanmapstone]

There were no docks in the Deptford area, there were coal staithes and shipyards. see http://maps.nls.uk/view/101099531#zoom=4&lat=3800&lon=5545&layers=BT
The dock marked on the plan was a graving dock used for the construction and maintenance of ships.

The docks at Sunderland were on the coast, and at the mouth of the river, see http://maps.nls.uk/view/101099522#zoom=3&lat=2652&lon=1643&layers=BT

Stan

[stanmapstone]

In Whellan's Sunderland 1894 Directory 42 Tobacconists are listed. Of course ordinary shopkeepers sold tobacco.

Stan

[JayG]

Thanks to the original poster & Stan for the links.

My 4 x great grandfather Thomas Wilson died at Hedley Street in 1864.

Cheers
Jay

[natbyte]

Hi, I wonder if anyone on this thread can help me.  I am trying to plot my Sunderland/Bishopwearmouth Forster family ancestors on a map, and obviously a lot of the streets no longer exist, I have found a rough area where Hedley Street was from this thread, but I also need to find Palmer Street, does anyone know where this was, or what now stands in it's place?  Many thanks in advance.  Natalie Edgoose (nee Forster)