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There was no Shiny Row in South Shields. Shiny Row was and still is a very small village at the foot of Penshaw Monument, between Sunderland and Chester le Street.

I lived in number 20 Havelock Street, it was in the Laygate area of South Shields but alas it was demolished many years ago.

Westoe covered most of South Shields in the 1800s, Westoe village was on the outskirts of the town.
The mine in the 1800s would probably have been St Hildas which closed down just before WWII. There was also Harton Colliery in the town.

Walkers Buildings and Walker Court, although not named on any of the old maps was in the vicinity
of the Market Place South Shields which was a heavily populated part of the town in late 1800s.
The main area of South Shields was called Westoe about 100 years ago, as opposed to Westoe Village
which was on the outskirts of the town in the 1800s, and where the very wealthy lived. Thames Street
no longer exists, Walker Buildings would be somewhere between Queen Street and King Street which
you can see on a modern map.

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