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I would agree with agree with gaffy & Little Nell - I've add a piece of deejayEn's photos to a screen shot of Google street view 2019.

iammcallum - don't know if this will work when the file is uploaded but I played around with my old software (Microsoft Digital Image Pro 10 that runs on Windows Vista  ) and I have created a png (Portable Network Graphics) file. You will have seen from yansan's comment that when he created a png file it was too large to upload to rootschat. I too have cut out the footballer from yansan's jpg file and created a small png file. In my world the png files I call transparencies and I can take a copy of the png file and add it to a jpg file; save the jpg file and the png file becomes part of the jpg file.

I will upload your original Peter Johnstone file with a png and jpg file embedded into it. You should see the png file shows only the cut out figure wheras the jpg file shows the figure and the white background. I will then upload the very small png file . If this works you should be able to download/save the png file. When you add a png file to a jpg file it will nrmally have an outlie and the outline can be dragged by the corners to create a larger image to add into the jpg fie.

I will check out the png file after I have posted this comment + files to see if all is OK. 

Surtees - I have requested the Moderator to delete the posting of the repair I did on Thursday the 10th  The picture on m PC screen looked Ok but I see when I have posted it there are marks etc. within the sky I added that were not visible on my screen but are when posted.

Hopefully this second attempt will not have similar marks etc. 

Anton1 - can't give you any specific info on the area but as you say you believe Office Row was for built for the manager/ office workers at the pit. Almost all of the local pits, Bedlington, Barrington, Cambois etc had an office Row very close to the colliery.

I checked out the are on the old maps on the National library of Scotland site and the 1920 map has the name Office Row and the 1937 map has the same row names as Mansel terrace.
https://maps.nls.uk/geo/find/#zoom=15.1&lat=55.12717&lon=-1.54914&layers=102&b=1&z=0&point=55.12403,-1.54940

I don't know if you have ever looked at the Durham Mining Museum site but it has details on every colliery in the Northumberland and Durham area. It doesn't give information on the area but does attempt to list all the facts on each colliery.
http://www.dmm.org.uk/colliery/index_b.htm

Ans a slightly enhanced one from me.