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Hi, apologies for jumping in on this post but i'm looking for a Northumberlnd Street, South Newsham, Blyth. Did such a street exist as I can't find it anywhere but had an ancestor who had a confectionery/tabacconists on this street at either number 7, 7a or 70, difficult to read hand writing? Regards paulmayuk

The only Northumberland Street I can think of is the one that existed nearer the river when the area was Newsham & South Blyth before it merged with Cowpen and became just Blyth.

https://maps.nls.uk/geo/explore/side-by-side/#zoom=16.7&lat=55.12725&lon=-1.50348&layers=257&right=ESRIWorld Visible on this map, but no door numbering unfortunately

There is a Church Street on the 1856 OS Map next behind the Chapel Of Ease/St Cuthberts Church on Plessey Road. It's closer to the river and it's gone by the next map so it might have been demolished when they were building St Cuthberts in the 1880's or the Police Station in the 1890;s
(Just checked and the back boundary wall of the Police Station seems to run down the middle of what was Church Street)

https://communities.northumberland.gov.uk/004891FS.htm this map shows it pretty clearly (Its tiny on the OS map lol)

Cambois place name, speculated in Hodgson’s History of Northumberland:

“It is often written Cambhouse; and might have its name from having at it, in old times, a Cambium, or house of trade, barter or exchange. There are seaports of the same name in Scotland and France.”

The more fanciful side of my brain would like to think that a group of French soldiers on their way to Scotland to help fight the English might have stopped off here and set up home. It would make the village quite a cosmopolitan place, French, Scottish and South American influences about the place…but that’s just conjecture (seeing as Cambois has been a place since at least the 1200’s).


SOURCE: https://books.google.co.uk/books?id=OOE9AQAAMAAJ&pg=PA360&dq=Cambois+Northumberland&hl=en&sa=X&ved=0ahUKEwiMj4Wo_OzeAhWKOsAKHdbwArsQ6AEINzAD#v=onepage&q=Cambois%20Northumberland&f=false

Hi NorthernLad,

I'm a descendant of the Keenlysides originating from Ninebanks/Allendale (my lot are from North Seaton/Cambois), can i send you a PM later on today just to clarify a question i've had for a while?

Many Thanks