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Re: Isabella Pit - Blyth
« Reply #9 on: Tuesday 19 August 14 08:12 BST (UK) »
A historic photo from the top of the pit heap?

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Re: Isabella Pit - Blyth
« Reply #10 on: Tuesday 19 August 14 10:04 BST (UK) »
Well done Hodgetts!  I just knew you would turn up something about this thread!
            A popular place we'd take the kids to play.. Dolly
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Re: Isabella Pit - Blyth
« Reply #11 on: Tuesday 19 August 14 12:13 BST (UK) »
This is what nearby rows looked like at ground level.

This is the backs East and South Rows with their nettys.

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Northumberland; Johnson, Johnston, Dodds, Rutherford, Gray, Kennedy, Wilson, Sanderson, Davidson and other Border Marauders as they are discovered on this journey.
Berkshire; Knight, Bristor, Sharpe, Sharp, Ashley.
Suffolk / Essex; Perce, Pearce, Pearse, Pierce, Hayes.
Midlands; Hodgetts, Parker, Easthope.

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Re: Isabella Pit - Blyth
« Reply #12 on: Tuesday 19 August 14 12:15 BST (UK) »
This is looking North along the front of East Row with their gardens.

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Berkshire; Knight, Bristor, Sharpe, Sharp, Ashley.
Suffolk / Essex; Perce, Pearce, Pearse, Pierce, Hayes.
Midlands; Hodgetts, Parker, Easthope.

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Re: Isabella Pit - Blyth
« Reply #13 on: Tuesday 19 August 14 16:05 BST (UK) »
When I went to my friend's house there, must have been late 40s, early 50s, their netty was in the backyard, and they bathed in a tin bath in front of the fire.
That first photo, Hodgetts, is lovely - shows the redeeming feature of the sea in the distance.
My Dad once told me how many coalmines there were from Blyth in the heydays of the early 20thC, I think it was over 10. Does anyone know?
Knott - Northumberland; Yorkshire (?Bridlington.)
Fenwick, Johnston - Northumberland.
Dixon; Hutchinson - York.
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Re: Isabella Pit - Blyth
« Reply #14 on: Tuesday 19 August 14 20:06 BST (UK) »
 Excellent Phillip, although there is no picture of my row (West Row) which faced what used to be the pit yard, and I never thought to take a photo of the streets.  Thankfully TriciaK my house did have indoor loo and bathroom, and I did have very nice decor.  A far cry from when I was a child, and used to visit schoolmates who lived there then...
             Eh this has brought lovely memories to mind,, thanks Dolly
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Re: Isabella Pit - Blyth
« Reply #15 on: Wednesday 20 August 14 00:40 BST (UK) »
Some years ago there was a project carried out at the Isabella Community Centre looking at the history of the village.  It was the first in a series of such studies and the information collected was eventually put into a book.   It’s full of photographs, reminiscences of people who grew up there, a list of everyone living there in 1940, a street map and much more.

I think there is at least one copy still in Blyth library.

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Re: Isabella Pit - Blyth
« Reply #16 on: Wednesday 20 August 14 01:07 BST (UK) »
Northumberland; Johnson, Johnston, Dodds, Rutherford, Gray, Kennedy, Wilson, Sanderson, Davidson and other Border Marauders as they are discovered on this journey.
Berkshire; Knight, Bristor, Sharpe, Sharp, Ashley.
Suffolk / Essex; Perce, Pearce, Pearse, Pierce, Hayes.
Midlands; Hodgetts, Parker, Easthope.

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Re: Isabella Pit - Blyth
« Reply #17 on: Wednesday 20 August 14 10:39 BST (UK) »
I'm not sure, but i'll have a root around at work, i'm almost certain we have copies of the study c-side mentioned.
Northumberland: Young, Parker, Wolens, Keenlyside, Taylor, Costello
Scotland: Dempster, Henderson, Jackson, M(a)cMillan, M(a)cLanders
Ireland (Co.Mayo): Monaghan, Costello

+ all variations of above names.
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