Blyth History.

[Phodgetts]

This next cutting of map dates to 1859, but was published 1865, and it shows a larger collection of buildings around the Link House ( in the red box ). Any one of the buildings to the left of it could have been the Half Moon Inn, but, I think given what I have seen of the extant buildings, it would either have been the little building between the Link House and those buildings to the left, or it would have been the left most and larger building of the group. I hope I have made sense.

In the 1896 painting, the Link House stands facing the road, Blyth being off to the right and the beach behind the painter. The buildings behind the Link House in the painting are possibly the ones that would have housed the pub, but of course, those old buildings might well have been demolished between 1865 and 1896 when the painting was done.

The second image is also of the Link House, looking towards Blyth with the beach on the right. The Half Moon Inn would have been out of sight to the left.

P

[TriciaK]

Perhaps that's what we used to call Maggie's Burn?

[pityackafromblyth]

Once again I have learned something on this site, about Blyth - not interested in the rest of the world ! Thanks to your posts and maps,Phodgetts, I have just realised that Link House [notice I am now using the correct spelling] and Linkhouse Farm were two separate buildings.  I always thought they were one and the same.
Tricia, I think that the old painting as posted does not shows Meggies Burn which is just further south and about opposite the cemetery.
Keep the info rolling in, as it keeps me busy.

[Phodgetts]

Hmmm. Maggie's Burn.

Two streams passed beneath the bridge at the Link House, one being the Ray Burn which originates in the fields close by Laverock Hall Farm, and Rayburn Court gets it's name from that stream. The other stream I am not sure about since on maps it isn't given a name, but it originates close by South Farm at Newsham and shows as a water course on all maps. They joined together just before they passed under the bridge at Link House and flowed into the sea, as they still do, passing through the square concrete topped culvert which is easily identified on the beach by the toilets etc. I remember that pipe being built replacing the old cast iron pipe that was there before.

There is a Meggie's Burn further south down the beach, half way to Seaton Sluice.

P

[Yossarian]

I have posted some Link House stuff elsewhere on this site, so apologies if I repeat myself.

Anyway, my grandparents lived at LH during the war years and my dad (1933 - 1998) spent his childhood there. He told me that a Commander Kitcat, a bigshot at the submarine base, stayed there (I guess this information is declassified now). On one of the upper floors was a room called the ‘flag room’, in which there were musty old flags of many nations. My nanna would sell boiling water to workmen from the back door.

As for Linkhouse Farm, I was working in a video rental store in the late 90s, and a woman joined giving the farm as her address. I told her of my dad’s link to the Link House, and she told me that the farm is on the site by the garage that was built after the Link House was demolished. It is still there today, with a horse or two in the field, I believe.

I have a box with various bits and pieces from when my dad died, and I came across this card. My grandparents moved to Beaumont Street when the war ended. My grandad put up a small wood and felt ’porch’ to keep the rain off when standing at the front door, and it is still going strong today.

[dolly dimples]

Great to see dear old Blyth getting a mention here again.
  That's a lovely photo of the Links house Philip.
    Looking forwards to the August Bank holiday weekend when the Tall Ships are here, and have you  seen our new swanky hotel on the Quayside,. Things are looking up a bit ..
                                                          Dolly

[blythian]

I have posted some Link House stuff elsewhere on this site, so apologies if I repeat myself.

Anyway, my grandparents lived at LH during the war years and my dad (1933 - 1998) spent his childhood there. He told me that a Commander Kitcat, a bigshot at the submarine base, stayed there (I guess this information is declassified now). On one of the upper floors was a room called the ‘flag room’, in which there were musty old flags of many nations. My nanna would sell boiling water to workmen from the back door.

As for Linkhouse Farm, I was working in a video rental store in the late 90s, and a woman joined giving the farm as her address. I told her of my dad’s link to the Link House, and she told me that the farm is on the site by the garage that was built after the Link House was demolished. It is still there today, with a horse or two in the field, I believe.

I have a box with various bits and pieces from when my dad died, and I came across this card. My grandparents moved to Beaumont Street when the war ended. My grandad put up a small wood and felt ’porch’ to keep the rain off when standing at the front door, and it is still going strong today.

Beat me to mentioning gg granny and the water lol - Is the Beaumont Street one thats on the end? (Toward Lidl)

[c-side]

I have a transcription of a document which mentions many of the folks living in Blyth around 1850.  This is what he says about Link House

"LINK HOUSES

Situated here was the Half Moon Inn, which was run by Stephen LAMB, who was also a Gardener and Seedsman.  In Link House lived the Rev. Robert GREENWOOD, Incumbent of Cramlington and Curate of Blyth.  Also living at Link Houses at about this time was Benjamin SCOTT, who ran a school at Crofton Mills."

Christine

[Yossarian]

Beat me to mentioning gg granny and the water lol - Is the Beaumont Street one thats on the end? (Toward Lidl)
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No, it's at the other end, a few doors up from Keelmans Terrace, on the left.