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The scene below shows further changes to Railway Street Station. gone are the old style buildings to be replaced by poorly built shelters. With more and more businesses sending goods by road the passenger and freight trains that operated out of the station slowly became redundant, reducing the need for manned stations with ticket offices. [...]

Many photographs taken around the 19th century exists of Ormonde Street in Jarrow Tyne and Wear. Most all of them showing the view below. This street all those years ago was classed as the main shopping area and was always busy with shoppers. The scene below existed until it was demolished in the 1960′s. The [...]

The Ben Lomond as it was known back in the 1930′s, was run as a residential hotel, it remained so until the 1970′s. The exterior of the building has never changed and is as grand a structure now as it was back in the 30′s. However, this did not go for the interior, sadly it [...]

Back in the 1920′s and 30′s there were over 20 public houses in Jarrow. The Albion pictured here was purpose built for the job in 1865. licensed for running the Albion Public House back in 1925, when this picture was taken, was in the safe hands of S. Pattinson, like all these type of buildings [...]

This view is of St. Bede’s Roman Catholic School. In those days as church’s were built in there relevant parish’s schools were often attached to the church. This view of St. Bede’s School built in Monkton terrace/St. John’s terrace around 1870/1 was an addition to the original school which was built around 1868/7 and initially [...]

Palmer’s shipyard brought much needed work to Jarrow. With the transport system being most irregular it followed that his work force must live near by. The photograph below shows Palmer’s Street where some of his work force lived. Transport links into Jarrow during this time were very poor, realising this and the need for his [...]

This Victorian railway station building, taken from the corner of Railway Street, dates all the way back to 1872. They were rather cold and draughty places lit by gas lamps. The station on the Newcastle to South Shield line lasted for almost a century before it was demolished in the 1960′s. In the picture you [...]

This view was taken in the early part of the 1950s. By this time the trolley/tram buses had been discontinued in favour of the more versatile kind. Travel between towns was now becoming very popular and the old trolley buses no-longer viable were replaced with the more up to date style buses. This station survived [...]

Grange Road mainly a shopping area with very few residential houses to the west. This photograph was taken on a wet miserable day. When this part of Grange Road, close to the junction of Market Square and Monkton Road was demolished in the 1960s. Some of the small traders found new premises in the town. [...]

This picture shows the fountain that was donated by Thomas Sheldon, the Mayor of Jarrow in 1876. It was located to the left of the parks main gate entrance. The park itself was given as a gift to the town of Jarrow, in the same year 1876, by Sir Walter and Lady James. The houses [...]