You are here:
Wardley
Wardley maps
Historic maps of Wardley and the local area, hand-drawn by Ordnance Survey and Samuel Lewis. View all Wardley maps
Wardley photos
We have no photos of Wardley, although we do have photos of these nearby places:
Monkton Village| Jarrow| Gateshead| West Boldon| Washington| Wallsend| East Boldon| Birtley| South Shields| Cleadon| Dunston| Newcastle Upon Tyne| Seaburn| Sunderland| Gosforth| Lambton Park| Tynemouth| Cullercoats
Wardley area books
Displaying 1 of 1 books about Wardley and the local area. View all books for this area
You can read extracts and browse photos from these books.
Memories of Wardley
Displaying a selection of personal
memories of Wardley.
Add your memory of Wardley
or of a photo of Wardley.
Wardley as Was
Well, I was born in Lingey Gardens (at my grandparents' house, John and Ethel Holdsworth) in 1948, but I best remember Wardley when I was about 8 years. I remember the NCB coal waggon tipping coal in the road outside the houses of men who worked at the pit. I would then help to carry it in buckets to the coal house which was built into the side of the house, boards where put up in the doorway as the coal got higher. Next door was Mrs Goldsworthy, she had a daughter called Barbara. I remember going to the pit head with my grandfather (no H & S then) and watching a cage and men with dirty faces suddenly appear out of the ground behind a mesh gate, the gate was opened and they would stream out with bait tins, lamps, knee pads, and all manner of things hanging from belts, and a helmet made of compressed cardboard, I think. I remember the old Co-op near to the pit, with... Read more
Tyne and Wear memories
Childhood Memories
I lived in the bungalow behind the stone wall surmounted with a wooden fence at the extreme right of the picture. The main feature in this photo is the Lord Nelson Inn.
Hebburn On Tyne
My Grandfather Thomas Hugh Devlin (Tom), retired Fire Commander, was born in Hebburn On Tyne, England on 25th August 1923. If anyone has any photos, information or memories, it would be much appreciated.
Never Did See Tom
Never seen Tom, but I remember his father, Aloysious Devlin, my grandfather, who always was in with the budgies in the aviary, he lived in Campbell Park Road, Hedburn. Also the smell coming from the bone yard and from the coke ovens, and trying to dodge paying the fare on the ferry.
MNy Granmother
Last thoughts, for her, was my father's mother, did see her, I remember in a place called CULTURE HOUSE, next to old police station, just as you come over railway bridge, on left hand side, on the way to JARROW. I think she ran a bed and breakfast. She was called AMELIA GILROY, pure white hair which was long, and blue eyes.
Church Street
I was born above the barber shop and Chronicle office on Church Street, if anyone knows it please reply. I would love to talk to anyone who lived there. I was born in 1949 and went to Walker R.C. School, I can't find any photos of Church Street, has anyone got any? My email is: davyallan06@hotmail.co.uk - if you have some, would you send me some?
The Regal Picture House And The Dene Near Walker Graveyard
I lived in Walker Dwellings in X Block, directly opposite of one of the entrances to Walker Park, from 1943 to 1946. I am looking for old photographs of Church Street and Walker Park. Also I would like contact with anyone from that time.
