Bensham, Tyne and Wear

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Old Maps of Bensham

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Map of Bensham in 1898

Map of Bensham in 1901-1904

Map of Bensham in 1925

Map of Bensham in 1947

Map of Bensham in 1895

Sheet Maps of Bensham

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Memories of Bensham
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Hubert Terrace

I often wondered who Hubert was. Other road names around were obvious. Bank Street was on a bank; School street had a school at the end of it. But Hubert Terrace? One side of my street was brick and the other was stone; something else I wondered about because all of the streets down from us towards the river were brick. Just this one terrace in stone. I say my street but in fact we lived on the corner of Bank ...see more

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Added 29 October 2010

School Street Bensham

We moved into School Street when I was nine, along with my two sisters Norma and Iris and our parents Mary and Norman Cook. My father was a lead glazer at Reed Millicans on Team Valley. At the Derwentwater Road end of School Street was the school, some called it Lady Vernon's, most though St Cuthbert's as the church was next to it. At 11 years I went to Windmill Hill School, only because it was near my ...see more

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