Front Street looking west,1890. The Nimmo on right, & no building beyond the
Boys School

 

Front Street looking east,
Vincents Shop on the left

 

Weardale Street , where
Weardale Park is now

 

 

 

 

 

Patton Street, Chapel on right,
still standing today
 

 

Wingate Lane,1930's
New Tavern Sign on left

 

 

Aged Miners Homes, before bungalows were built on right 
 

Alexnader Terrace in the 1920's
Vincents Shop on left 
 

Front Street looking east 1905 
 

Front Street looking east
Just a dirt road then, School on left 
No houses/shops on the right
 

Gable Terrace, Vicarage bottom left 
 

Wagon crash at Vincents Corner
notice Thornley Pit Heap far right 
 

Cemetery Road, before the Scheme Houses were built on right

 

Looking from Wordsworth Avenue to 
Vincents Corner. Note the gardens on left before The Coronation was built 

 
Photo of Patton Street after the prefabs were demolished. The Chapel, Jenny Carrs Shop, Miners Hall, & Institute still then, Chapel still there today. Gore Burn,{The Beck} in foreground
 

Old Railway Carriages down Black Lane towards the Dog Track, where families used to live 
 

Burns Pond & Pit Heaps, looking towards Wheatley Hill, School Kitchens can be just seen top left 
 

Photo taken from Thornley bridge showing "The Dardanelles" & Royalty