Malvin's Close, Cowpen

[jora]

Thank you George for your interest.

I am now almost 100% certain that my photograph is of Malvin's Close House, thanks to the information given on this forum. Little details all seem to add up, such as blythboy remembering the wall round the building. A good photograph would be icing on the cake!

Thanks again for all the help received.

[GeorgeWH]

I have resized this photo of the offices which seems to match the sketch. So therefore, we can deduce from this that the Malvins House is more likely to be your photo and not to be confused with the NCB offices further down the road near Cowpen Road.

[GeorgeWH]

Here is another photo of the offices from a different angle. Hope this helps clear up your location query for you juro.

[TriciaK]

The photo above isn't the one I used to visit.
Seems that Cowpen Colliery offices and Malvins Close House were 2 different buildings.

[norfolkbroadslim]

Hi all, there are some photographs of Malvin's Close House and it's demolition here -

http://www.delboyenterprises.co.uk/blythpics/malvins_house.htm


 

[TriciaK]

Thanks for the pictures - yes that's where my Mum was from 1997 to 2002 when she died aged 87.
Her room was the one on the ground floor, far left.
It's sad to see such a beautiful building being demolished, but people need houses.

[dolly dimples]

 What wonderful nostalgic photos of my home town, a real treat!
           Thank you, Dolly x

[blythboy]

Re TriciaK's comment on "people need house" - very true but the only things that seems to have been built in Blyth since I left (1974) are swathes of houses on greenfield sites. Does no one have the wit to have converted into apartments/dwellings Malvins Close House, the old Grammar School and all of those empty rooms above the endless banks, charity shops, pawnbrokers etc that now constitute the centre of Blyth? In any event, shouldn't some of these buildings have been listed?

What is required is someone to entice a major employer paying good wages into the town, what we have now is a dormitory suburb and a dead town centre. Along with the traffic nightmare as people leave and return to Blyth.

[Phodgetts]

A real photo postcard of Malvin's Close.

Thanks to Joan for sharing the image with me and letting me put it up on here for you all to enjoy.

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