Gallery

Heaton people, places and notable events. This gallery gives a taster of photos featured in the main blog. See and find out more by scrolling down the home page or clicking on the tags on the right. Acknowledgements, where needed, are given in the appropriate blog entries.

: by Lafayette (Lafayette Ltd), half-plate nitrate negative, 25 May 1929

: by Alexander Bassano, half-plate glass negative, 1886

: by Alexander Bassano, half-plate glass negative, 1886

: EPSON scanner image

: German map of Heaton, 1941

: Bomb damage on Guildford Place

: Arthur Shaw

: Nell and her mother

: Muriel Shaw

: North Eastern Railway class S2 and London & North Eastern Railway B15 with an NER J71 tank engine, Heaton c1919

: Irene Neylon’s VAD record card

: Some of the buildings at Harefield Park where Lillian English served

: Staff of the Liverpool Merchants’ Hospital

: VAD uniform

: VAD recruitment poster

: Back lane between Simonside and Rothbury Terrace, November 2015

: Tulip’s now Kohli’s

: War Savings Association membership card

: William Gilhome

: Letter from Lloyd George to Mary Gilhome

: Mary Gilhome

: John Porter Gilhome (right)

: Sisters Dora, Lizzie and Mary Gilhome

: Mary Isabella Gilhome

: Isaac Gilhome

: The wooden buildings which housed High Heaton Infants School and then, until 1966, the library

: High Heaton in the early 1930s with the school in front of the trees of the Spinney

: High Heaton Infants School Pupils, 1935

: Antonio (‘Tony’) Gazzilli , listed with Maria as the proprietor of 57, pictured with younger brother Thomas (‘Tommy’)

: Christina and Mary Gazzilli Junior as children

: Maria and Frank Gazzilli’s youngest daughter Theresa and youngest son, Franky, outside no 57.

: Chrissie Gazzilli pictured in the shop when it closed in 1990

: Maria Gazzilli, who opened the Heaton ice cream parlour

: Maria Gazzilli, who opened the Heaton ice cream parlour

: Billy Hogg

: Billy Hogg

: Detail from a WW1 ration card

: WW1 Ration Card

: Joseph Fagg’s letter to the press

: Newcastle Journal 18 November 1916

: Sam Smith, founder of Ringtons

: Simon Smith, son of Sam, and staff outside Algernon Road HQ, 1932

: Ringtons, Algernon Road c1930

: Extract from letter from Will Titterington Fourth Avenue, Heaton to Sam Smith 1917

: Ringtons, Shields Rd c1912

: Ringtons’ Shields Rd premises c 1910

: Joe Crane

: Another spread: Wild Trapeze and the original Co-op

: Sample spread from ‘Heaton Road Shops: then and now’

: Heaton Road Shops Then and Now cover

: Francis Topping (left)had a road in Hartlepool named after him

: The Wood brothers’ names on the Heaton Presbyterian Church war memorial

: Heaton Presbyterian Church War Memorial where the contributions of Robert, John and Stanley Wood are commemorated.

: Robert Walker, Isabella Wood’s brother, who grew potatoes in a field of Red Hall Drive

: Isabella Wood at her front door in Seventh Avenue, still tending plants

: David and Isabella Wood in the backyard of their home in Seventh Avenue

: David and Isabella Wood with eldest children, Isabella, Helen & John, c1893

: The original buildings of what became Heaton Manor School

: King and Queen open Heaton Secondary Schools, 1928

: Margaret, Olive and Julia, 2015

: Isabella and David Wood

: Olive as a young child

: Olive with daughters, Julia and Margaret in 1953

: Olive (middle) & friends in Heaton High uniform, late 1920s

: Frank Topping, Home Guard, 1942

: Olive (right) with her sister Sybil, Ebor St c1923

: Olive with her brother, Rob, outside their house in Ebor Street.

: Olive on the cannon in Heaton Park

: Frank Topping officially opening railway cottage in Topping Close, Hartlepool

: North View School, 1890s?

: Yvonne Young

: The type of passenger train William Skinner was driving in 1926

: Robert Wood’s grave

: Robert Thomas Wood’s will

: Hope and Maxwell’s plans showing the attic billiard room at Coquet Villa

: Hope and Maxwell’s plans for Coquet Villa and Redthorpe next door

: Inscription on Thompson family vault (detail)

: Headstone of George Thompson, Coquet Villa

: Coquet Villa 2015

: Interior of Coquet Villa’s turret, 2015

: Reunion at Wild Trapeze

: Chillingham Road School prefects,1962

: Leslie Jeffcoat’s medals

: Leslie Jeffcoat’s discharge certificate

: Leslie Jeffocat’s ID bracelet

: Jeffcoat’s spurs

: Heaton Hall c1907

: Photograph of King John’s palace, 1929

: Heaton Hall, illustrated in 1795

: Nineteenth century engraving of King John’s Palace

: King John by unknown artist, oil on panel, 1590-1610 (by kind permission of the National Portrait Gallery).

: Heaton Hall

: King John’s Well, Armstrong Park

: Leslie Daykin Jeffcoat

: Arthur Jeffcoat’s letter

: Under the Fields of Heaton CD Cover

: Knitting for the troops was promoted via popular culture

: WW1 knitting pattern

: Rachel Parsons in a Buick outside her house in London’s Grosvenor Square, 1925

: Woman at Parsons’ Heaton works engaged in steam turbine manufacture during WW1

: Rachel and Charles Parsons

: Rachel Parsons (by Bassano, by permission of National Portrait Gallery)

: ‘Regina’ from South Shields

: 1st Northern General Staff 1916

: Fred Robinson’s gravestone

: Emma Hudspeth

: Henner Hudspeth

: Henner Hudspeth’s band

: Henner Hudspeth and his band

: Al Moore’s band at the Heaton, 1933

: Henner Hudspeth with his mother and father

: Henner and Nancy Hudspeth on their wedding day

: Arthur Hudspeth

: WW1 memorial scroll

: WW1 memorial plaque

: St Gabriel’s Church War Memorial

: Chillingham Road School War Memorial

: Nellie and Arthur on their wedding day

: Margaret Robinson’s letter requesting a plaque and Victory Medal for her son

: Heaton History Group member, Arthur Andrews

: Bible presented to William Castle

: Pallinsburn, Northumberland

: Winnie Castle

: William Castle

: Article by Paul Joannou in the Newcastle United programme

: Cuthbert Bainbridge Memorial Chapel, c1905

: ‘Co-al’ by Mark James

: Sons of the Battle-axe oath of allegiance

: Jack Common’s ‘corner-gang’ codes

: Ruth Castle outside 47 Tenth Avenue, early 1900s

: Rose Vanner, Gateshead’s first lady tram conductress in 1916

: Fields of Heaton in the 18C

: Craigmore , Heaton Road today

: Amos Atkinson (18XX-1901)

: Amos Atkinson’s, Northumberland Street in the 1970s

: Amos Atkinson’s, Northumberland Street c1900

: This advert appeared in the trade directories for many years

: Extract from Hutton’s book with Thomas Bewick engravings

: Detail from painting of Charles Hutton by Andrew Morton now in the Lit and Phil

: Bust of Charles Hutton by Sebastian Gahagan now in the Lit and Phil

: Charles Hutton by Benjamin Wyon, 1823 (Thank you to the National Portrait Gallery)

: Another early 20C card of Jesmond Dene by Alexander Denholm Brash

: Early 20C postcard of Jesmond Dene, published by Alexander Brash of 92 Heaton Road

: Many prominent Heaton residents are buried in Jesmond Old Cemetery

: Collage based on William Horsley of Tenth Avenue’s life during WW1 by a Year 6 pupil at Chillingham Road School

: Family photo of William as a very young boy

: Aerial combat in WW1 by Howard Leigh

: William Douglass Horsley

: 1936 Ardath cigarette card

: A S Wilkins’ Cremona Toffee Works, 1938

: Young Joan, aged 4, in 1926

: Young Joan in her back yard c 19932

: North View School 1974

: Leighton Primitive Methodist Chapel c 1910

: Heaton Stannington 2014

: Action from a Heaton Stannington game in 1951

: Heaton Stannington, 1934

: Cover of A Celebration of Our Mining Heritage

: HeatonRoadvillasmap

: Serving , Heaton 1914 ? by Kate Hancock

: Robert and Sarah are in the centre of this family group

: The original dining room and drawing room were converted into a waiting room and consulting room

: Craigielea is shown on the left of this original design

: This postcard was written less than two years after Lord Armstrong’s death

: The drinking vessels at King John’s Well were still in place within living memory

: Carriage drive the royal procession would have taken through Armstrong Park

: Not before 1850 but an interesting postcard anyway

: Fine Fare

: Photo collage by Janet Burn, Heaton History Group

: Sketch by Heaton History Group member, Mark James

: Sketch of the ‘spying’ incident by Robin Beers, Aloysius’s grandson

: Aloysius Beers (extreme right) with other members of a ship’s orchestra

: Leo Beers in later life

: And recognise this much changed building on the Coast Road?

: And this one?

: Anyone remember this shop on Shields Road?

: Medicals who fell in World War 2 are commemorated by cherry trees around the ground

: Detail from 1990 Ordnance Survey map

: Gentlemen of Philadelphia, 1884

: The tourists of 1884

: Private Edward Lawson VC – photograph from the Gordon Highlanders Museum

: Bowling green, Heaton Park

: Old temple

: Edward Lawson

: Private Lawson of the Gordon Highlanders

: One of the photos of George Waller by Edward Brewis

: A near contemporary view of Armstrong Bridge near the spot where Waller was thrown from his trap

: Bigges Main Waggonway excavation July 2013

: Joseph Brough

: Edward Brough

: Mr and Mrs Batchelor outside their shop

: Elizabeth Kirsop nee Edgar

: George Carins (or Cairns) one of only 17 voters in Heaton in 1851-2

: Contemporary illustration

: Waller with his 1879 World Championship belt

: George Waller

: One of Edward Brewis’s photographs of George Waller

: 190 Heaton Park Road, c1910

: 190 Heaton Park Road in about 1910

: Ice Cream Parlour, 2013

: The famous cone

: Heaton Ice Cream Parlour in the late 1980s

: The first Edmund Forbes Pretswell with members of his family outside his Willington Quay shop

: Heaton Road, looking South

: Heaton Ice Cream Parlour in 1950

: Edmund Forbes Pretswell senior’s Byker Bank shop. possibly with Edmund hismself standing in the doorway.

: Pretswell’s signage being uncovered in 2013.

: Reconstructed section of Hadrian’s Wall, Wallsend

: Newcastle Journal, dated 15 May 1841

: Newcastle Journal, 6 May 1861

: Drawing of the original Heaton Station, 1847

: Heaton Station, scene of attempted arson attack by suffragettes

: ‘New’Heaton Station

: The original Heaton Station (courtesy of Beamish Museum)

: Members of Heaton History group, the Veitch family, the Smith family with the Lord Mayor and councillors.

: Colin Veitch plaque 1

: Heaton Deli

: Heaton Deli

: Matty Hunton of Robinson’s

: Karl Marx headstone

: Chillingham Road School (1966)

: Jack Common plaque

: Jack Common’s birthplace

: Arthur Shaw

: Maureen Waugh and Irene Garrett serving in Robinsons in 1960s

: Robinson Pork Butchers in 1960s

: Edgar Couzen’s shop

: Edgar Couzenn’s van

: Edgar Couzens in his shop

: A photgraph of Colin (fourth from left) and other family members given to Heaton History Group by Janet Keighley, his great niece

: Members of Colin Veitch’s family were present. This is is great, great, great niece

: Bob Moncur, the last Newcastle captain to lift silverware, spoke about Colin’s achievements

: The plaque was made possible by the support of Newcastle City Council, the PFA, Chris Goulding and Keith and Sam Smith.

: Image of Jesmond Vale from an old postcard

: Jesmond Dene

: Jesmond Dene, ‘Brash series’

: Green Water Pool, Jesmond Vale

: Alexander Denholm Brash’s booksellers, stationers and circulating library

: Google image of the estate showing the former position of Heaton Hall and other features (by Keith Fisher)

: Heaton Estate Plan showing the burn to the North East

: View from West of Chillingham Road

: View looking East towards Wallsend

: Postman on Jesmond Park West

: Shopping on Newton Road 2

: Shopping on Benton Road

: Lollipop lady on Newton Road

: High Heaton Library

: Children and Teacher at Cragside School by Laszlo Torday

: The cover of Ian Clough’s book

: Wills Factory Exterior

: Wills Factory stage in the canteen

: Heaton Park Lake

: Heaton Park Road by Lazslo Torday

: Heaton Park Road South

: Jack Common

: Prince of Wales (later Edward VIII) on Shields Road

: Herbert Pledger’s shop seen here in 1923 on the occasion of the Prince of Wales visit (Taken by Heaton butcher, Edgar Couzens)