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I don't think that there is a Delaval ( which ever spelling ) in the Whickham / Winlaton area. I may well be wrong, but you could check on the Durham forum, as those areas are in "No Man's land" between Tees and Tyne   

Don't take the census as being accurate. The enumerators often placed peoples' origins as being where they were living at the time, it's best to get as much information as you can and invest in a birth certificate. Confusingly, from people outside the area, Seaton Delaval was in Tynemouth registration district.

https://www.ukbmd.org.uk/genuki/reg/districts/tynemouth.html

According to freebmd ( sorry mods if I'm not allowed to give names of sites ), the birth of a John Lawson was registered at Tynemouth in OND 1866

Just to add ... the English Folk Dance and Song Society ( EFDSS ) uses longswords as their emblem, but the do cover rapper dances.

Try them via www.efdss.org

( Happy memories of North Yorkshire when I was younger ... my first hangover came after a meet in (I think ) Castleton. I was about 13 !! ) 

Do you have them in 1891 Nova?

I think they were married in 1893 , so I'm not sure if the 1891 census is going to help. ( 1911 says married 21 years, but pob is Newbiggin ( Woodhorn Parish)

Edit: Sorry, beaten to it ...

When I moved to Blyth I wondered the same, and when I joined the old Blyth Valley Council I asked. No- one could give me a definitive answer.

It was thought that 13th Avenue was omitted through perceived superstition, as per the original post. As for 24th Avenue, consensus of opinion was that a redesign of the estate layout between original planning and building the houses meant that twentyfourth Avenue was not built. I accepted this as plausible and didn't persue it further

I wish I had now, but many of the older planning staff have retired and such a source of information ( and trivia!) has been lost.  I still have occasional contact with an old time planning officer, I'll ask him when I see him.

Well blow me down with a feather. Blyth has a conservation area, but only after they demolished some wonderful old buildings like the Thomas Knight Memorial Hospital, the Central Methodist Chapel, the Royal Theatre, the Central Hall. I really didn't think anybody cared!

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Blyth has three conservation areas, close but not connected. Details are on the Northumberland County Council website

Northumberland County Council have overall "control" ( or lack of) , but Blyth Town Council have been trying to get them linked into a single one.

Most of the buildings you mention were demolished before the CAs were instituted, but the slow crawl of progress was one of the reasons that they were started and to avoid the wholesale destruction of the town's heritage.

A conservation area doesn't stop progress, but means that any developer has to take into account the "character" of an area. Otherwise we'd still be using outdoor privvies.

BTC also prepared a "Buildings of Historic Interest" list, ( one step below listing) that the planners ( at NCC) have to take take into account before allowing changes to those buildings. At least two other leaflets are in preparation, by the way

And finally, a reminder that BTC are looking for nominations for "Blue Plaques" in Blyth, to recognise historic buildings and / or residents. I put details on the Blyth Buildings thread.