EAW033927 ENGLAND (1950). The Reyrolle Electrical Engineering Works and environs, Hebburn, 1950. This image was marked by Aerofilms Ltd for photo editing.

Air Raid Shelters

WW2 Concrete ARP Shelter

WW2 ARP shelter

Church St which stretched from Ellison St, alongside St Andrew's church to Price St

Bell St

Railway Tce which stood between the 'C' Pit Yard and Palmer's Ship Repair Yard.

This was the Quay Board School. It was surrounded by Caledonian St, William St, McIntyre St and Lyon St.

This building was on the corner of Bewick St and Argyle St. I ran down over Cuthbert & William St , finishing at Lyon St. In the 40s & 50s the building contained Doctor Miller's surgery.

Cuthbert St another long street that began at Prince Consort Rd and ended at Dunston St.

William St which ran from Prince Consort Road back lane, all the way to Dunston St, so a very long street.

Coquet St which was alongside St Aloysius School yard.

St Aloysius RC Church with the boys and girls school attached stretched as far as Coquet St

Later in the 50s this piece of land was turned into playing fields. I remember St Aloysius using it for football.

This land between the County Hotel & railway lines was Robert Frazer & Sons Steel Stockholders.

Hebburn Sea Cadet's. My pic shows Lord Louis Mountbatten who years earlier Commanded HMS Kelly inspecting the cadets in 1955.

The Mid-Tyne Ferry Offices. Photo from my website www.oldtyneside.co.uk

Hebburn Ferry Landing. Ferries regularly went to Wallsend & Walker from here. Photo from my www.oldtyneside.co.uk website

Glen St in Hebburn 'Newtown'

Lyon St. This same road is used today but none of the old houses remain apart from the 'Caledonian Hotel' a few hundred yards further along it.

This rough grassy area was known locally as 'Tennants Fields'.

This was an old unused industrial reservoir previously used in some process.

Hedley Schools which are still there today & recently refurbished. My pic was taken from across Argyle St. try my www.oldtyneside.co.uk website if you want to see more old photos

St Cuthbert's Church on Ellison St - Argyle St corner. Pic from my www.oldtyneside.co.uk website

Carr St which ran from Prince Consort Rd to Ellison St. The photo is from my www.oldtyneside.co.uk website

The Albert Hotel on William St/Albert St corner. Today it is still there under its new name of 'Wardles'. The photo is from my www.oldtyneside.co.uk website

The 'Gem' Cinema on Albert St/William St corner

The Clinic on Argyle St

Hebburn Urban District Council Offices on Argyle St/Albert St corner. Photo from my www.oldtyneside.co.uk website

The 'County Hotel' still standing today but with a knew name.

The gap between this Ann St house & the next one further down was because Luftwaffe bombs hit the missing houses . That gap can still be seen today as it was never built on again. Photo from my www.oldtyneside.co.uk website

This derelict are was where Hebburn 'C' Pit once was. It closed in the 1930s yet part of it is still there 20 yrs later.

Hawthorne Leslies Ship Building Yard at the bottom of Ellison St

I lived in this upstairs Flat from being a baby in 1944 to when we left about 1953. The address was 14 Lyon St. When this photo was taken we were living there then. No hot water in the house just a cold water tap. The toilet was down the rear stairs & down to the bottom of the backyard. That's me as a little 2yr old at our front door.

This was a Nursery School on Prince Consort Rd

This building on the corner of Prince Consort Rd & Argyle St was Martin's Bank which later became Barclay's. It still stands today in 2014 & has been a Funeral Home for years,

This long prefab was part of St Aloysius boys school & consisted of 3 classrooms. I was taught in this building for 2 yrs leaving in 1959 age 15.

This building was Lloyds Bank & was across the road from St Aloysius Church. Photo from my www.oldtyneside.co.uk website

Hebburn Police Station with the Courtroom attached on the right. photo is one I took in 1969 & is now on my www.oldtyneside.co.uk website

Bonnacord St which was at the bottom of Ellison St. It was built for Mr Leslie's employees . Mr Leslie came from Aberdeen in 1853 & started his Ship yard. Bonnacord is the City of Aberdeen's Motto.

The Co-op Store Hall on Lyon St - Albert St corner where they held Dances etc in the Hall upstairs. Below at ground level were their Co-op shops. Photo from my www.oldtyneside.co.uk website

This is the bottom part of Prince Consort Rd & still there today in 2014.

These sheds & the land down to the river once belonged to the Newcastle Shipbuilding Co who started off in 1919 & went bankrupt two years later. The Sheds were bought at the end of the 1920s by a Gateshead Company called Reay & the 'Reay Gear Works' started up in Hebburn. Years later it was taken over by George Angus & Co Ltd as their Gear Division. Later it was bought by RW Transmissions who ran the gear making company until closing in the mid 1970s.

The Ballast Hill. In the old days, to stop empty boats coming to collect coal from being unstable at sea they used sand/gravel to weigh the vessel down in the water. This was known as ballast. Today's ships use water which can be pumped in & out easily. So when a boat arrived for our coal, the ballast had to be dumped first hence Ballast Hills being created along the riverside close to the coal staiths.

This area was known locally as 'The Bauxite'. Not a lot is recorded about this 'British Aluminium Co' apart from it produced Aluminium Hydroxide from the ore known as 'Bauxite'. A lot of waste known as red mud was a by-product of the process & it was dumped on the site producing hillocks/mounds of this red mud. It was fenced off to keep people off it.

St Andrew's Church (Presbyterian) & Institute

The badly damaged Ellison House PH next door to the Theatre Royal on Lyon St. This photo was taken after the fire in Oct 7th 1950.

Whites Marine Engineering factory on Prince Consort Rd

We called this 'The Copper Works pond'. It was a brick lined Reservoir that had steeply sloping sides & very deep & dangerous. The owners had been the Tharsis Sulpher & Copper Co who had moved leaving dangerous derelict buildings & unfenced reservoir behind.

Reyrolle's bottom works as it was known locally. The other part of Reyrolles was across the railway line & it was called the Newtown Works but it is not on this photo.