Blyth Street name

[Phodgetts]

No intention of taking over with memories. My question regards the location of Richardsons Terrace in relation to Tweedy Street and John Street. The locations are half a mile apart. I also wonder what was on the opposite side of Cowpen Rd at this location (Dixon's Terrace).


And for Peeem, I am hoping to purchase a collection of maps and this location is included, so I hope I might be able to add further info later.

Philip

[Yossarian]

At the Newtown there was one shop. Old Mrs Murray sold a wide range of things- including one fag/one match for a penny !

I was born in Beecher Street - down the bottom end, demolished in the early 1970s. I remember Murray's shop, although later we called it Lily's. The shop was the front room of the house, and there were jars of sweets all along the counter (liquorice torpedos, jap desserts, those monkey nut sweets etc), and there were several chewing gum machines on the wall outside. I believe the shop was owned by Charlie Robertson, of Charlie's shops on Cowpen Estate, and he lived there.

However, Murray's was not the only shop in Cowpen Newtown. At the very top of Beecher Street was Mrs Air's, which was a general dealer's and off licence. The shop window, where I stood drooling over chocolates on display, has long since been bricked up and pebbledashed. The door was right under the blue and white Beecher Street sign which is still there today. I trudged up that street many a time on errands, often to buy cigarettes for my mam or the neighbours in those age-restriction free days.

Mrs Air's was closer than Murray's, and because of this, the latter was known as the top shop.

 

[blythian]

No intention of taking over with memories. My question regards the location of Richardsons Terrace in relation to Tweedy Street and John Street. The locations are half a mile apart. I also wonder what was on the opposite side of Cowpen Rd at this location (Dixon's Terrace).


And for Peeem, I am hoping to purchase a collection of maps and this location is included, so I hope I might be able to add further info later.

Philip

Get ready to squint PYFB, it's just readable if you get a millimetre away from the screen and borrow Deirdre Rasheeds glasses.

Suppose what interests me on here is the group of houses at Kitty Brewster (Richardson Ter is where my Gt-Gt grandparents lived first before New Town), and the small Mth Chapel in the middle of nowhere...

[EDIT] Eveen Better View of Tweedy, Taylor & Dixon, 1922-23

[pityackafromblyth]

This just caught my eye, and then I notice blythian inviting me to squint at the maps of Cowpen. :)Well done for publishing the maps.
I remember Mrs. Air's shop, and I think she also had a daughter who helped in the shop. Off licence - Yes, went there some New Year's Eves, to buy Newcastle Amber Beer for Dad. Probably about a dozen bottles or so. Under age by about 4 yrs, but still sold to me, placed in a bag and carried home.  Us kids must have been trustworthy in those days.

[pityackafromblyth]

Just had a good look at the maps, and I see that there was a Methodist Chapel situated down the lane which runs between the King's Arms, and the garage (originally Co-op, etc.)

[blythian]

Since we're talking about Tweedy St and surround's, I'm often walking up Patterrdale and the cut through Ribblesdale to get to work, i've noticed at the back of South Bebside Care Home and along the edge of Ribblesdale (toward the Windmill) there are two walls signifigantly older than anything else around them, could these be remnant's of the old Hall garden's and orchards?


Are there any other hint's of the Hall's past in the area (Apart from Cowpen Hall Road, lol)?

I was sorting out my partner's mother's garden at the top end of Weardale (tynedale dr side) and there was "a helluvalot" of large sandstone masonry in the garden, possibly part of the hall out buildings or something else?

[TriciaK]

iI don't know the estate you're talking about, is it fairly new?
My Mum was in Malvins Close House for a few years up to 2002, which was in the area, and I think that has been demolished now. It's a shame, because it was a lovely stone building. I heard originally it was built for the manager of one of the pits.

[Phodgetts]

Yes Blythian, the walls you are seeing are the last vestiges of the boundary wall to Cowpen Hall's gardens. I am surprised they have survived into the 21 Century. The lower parts of the front wall along the main road still stand.

Such a shame that yet another of Blyth's significant old buildings has been a total loss.

The picture is of the Hall just prior to demolition. 

P

[Yossarian]

Excellent photo. I remember exploring Cowpen Estate when I moved there from Cowpen Newtown, and I came across Cowpen Hall Road. I wondered where the hall was. There was an old wall on Patterdale with an opening that gave access to Cowpen Club - I assume this was part of the old hall's boundary.

Shame they demolished it - Cowpen could have had its own Wetherspoon's