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Old 26-11-2013, 05:11 PM
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Default Origins of Red Row

I've been reading with interest all of the messages about the shops at Red Row and the Willows. I'm waiting to see my brother in law to tap into his cerebral gold mine about all that......he grew up at the Willows.

But, in the meantime, when did Red Row come into existence? I've been having a look at the maps (for Hadstone) on the Northumberland Communities site and it seems that in about 1860 there was a school and smithy there, at the top of Whitefield Bank, but that was all. On the 1897 map, the Willows and Swarland Terrace are up and the 1920 map is good. If you have a look at where the Buffs is you'll see a reference to a Club and Institute and then to a Red Triangle Club (was this to become the Primrose Hall?). The picture hall is there too. Great stuff

Just googled red triangle clubs and apparently they're the YMCA but I guess everybody knew that!

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Old 26-11-2013, 06:39 PM
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That's a great link. Fancy them building a school before a club. They have a trade directory attached
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Old 28-11-2013, 03:02 PM
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That's a great link. Fancy them building a school before a club. They have a trade directory attached
Two family`s, Hetherington and Coxon remained in business until the 50s/60s
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Old 29-11-2013, 08:06 PM
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Default Main road south

I don`t remember those walls, steep bank
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Old 30-11-2013, 09:01 AM
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I tried to recreate the photo a little while ago
NB. If you are going to try the same, take care of X18 bus approaching from rear! They don't slow down!
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Old 30-11-2013, 11:28 AM
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I don't know, you wait hours for a bus and then..........
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Old 30-11-2013, 01:24 PM
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and don't get me started on the X20 Janwhin!
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Old 01-12-2013, 03:12 PM
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Think I`ll leave the photo recreation to you Had another look at the 1860 map. There seem to be a row of houses opposite the smithy but most of these are gone on the 1897 map when the Willows appear. Could this be "the red row"?
I remember going on a school nature walk on the path from the buffs to West Chevington, seemed to have been well used at some time
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Old 01-12-2013, 09:46 PM
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Think I`ll leave the photo recreation to you Had another look at the 1860 map. There seem to be a row of houses opposite the smithy but most of these are gone on the 1897 map when the Willows appear. Could this be "the red row"?
I remember going on a school nature walk on the path from the buffs to West Chevington, seemed to have been well used at some time
Used to wander that same path with our class.Grandparents were from west chevington.
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Old 02-12-2013, 10:09 AM
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If you have a look at the Chevington Crescent thread you'll see a discussion and some maps about this old route via the Buffs
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Old 02-12-2013, 12:57 PM
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If you have a look at the Chevington Crescent thread you'll see a discussion and some maps about this old route via the Buffs
Looked at thread thanks. Guess the kids from West Chevington must have walked to the school that way. Looking at the old map of 1865 it looks like the nearest miners houses to Red Row were at South Broomhill.
I can just remember visiting my granny there early 1950s as they were being demolished. Her mother Catherine Smith lived at Radcliffe and I think she was killed when she was hit by a door blown in the wind
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Old 02-12-2013, 02:36 PM
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Chevington Colliery and houses were up and running in the 1870s or at least that's the earliest mention I can find for them in the newspapers.
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