Porcy Mane Posted September 18, 2018 Share Posted September 18, 2018 (edited) Looks like those in Staffordshire Row were living the dream. House in the middle of an Ironworks surrounded on all four sides by railway. No need to use a candle when popping out to the nettie in the middle of the night because of the all encompassing inferno continually going on all around and the luxury of a swimming pool at the bottom of the yard. Not only that, I bet all the residents were redheads. (Oldie Consett residents will understand the last comment). Edited September 18, 2018 by Porcy Mane 3 Link to post Share on other sites More sharing options...
Axlebox Posted September 18, 2018 Share Posted September 18, 2018 Staffordshire Row, that were luxury...we had house int middle of the most polluted works in the north... https://britainfromabove.org.uk/en/image/EAW048576 ...although you do hope that by time these pictures were taken in 1953 they were no longer occupied... 1 Link to post Share on other sites More sharing options...
Porcy Mane Posted September 18, 2018 Share Posted September 18, 2018 we had house int middle of the most polluted works in the north... ower tar wer'r blacker n' there were more o us. https://britainfromabove.org.uk/en/image/EPW038893 1 Link to post Share on other sites More sharing options...
RMweb Gold The Johnster Posted September 18, 2018 RMweb Gold Share Posted September 18, 2018 Tell kids that terday... Thanks everyone, a wonderful thread and a world I never knew, that has vanished like so many others. Magificent. Link to post Share on other sites More sharing options...
Arpster Posted September 19, 2018 Share Posted September 19, 2018 What about one of the lovely houses on 'Blast Row' or Pattinson Town in the midst of Washington Chemical Works (Tyne Dock to Consett line visible in the background)?https://britainfromabove.org.uk/en/image/EPW016386 Arp Link to post Share on other sites More sharing options...
Mark Saunders Posted September 19, 2018 Share Posted September 19, 2018 ower tar wer'r blacker n' there were more o us. https://britainfromabove.org.uk/en/image/EPW038893 They didn't get called "Smoggies" for nothing on Teesside! Link to post Share on other sites More sharing options...
62613 Posted September 19, 2018 Share Posted September 19, 2018 What about one of the lovely houses on 'Blast Row' or Pattinson Town in the midst of Washington Chemical Works (Tyne Dock to Consett line visible in the background)? https://britainfromabove.org.uk/en/image/EPW016386 Arp Given T&N's main product, no thanks! Link to post Share on other sites More sharing options...
Porcy Mane Posted September 19, 2018 Share Posted September 19, 2018 (edited) What about one of the lovely houses on 'Blast Row' or Pattinson Town in the midst of Washington Chemical Works (Tyne Dock to Consett line visible in the background)? https://britainfromabove.org.uk/en/image/EPW016386 With the added delights of breathing in all those blue and white asbestos fibres the result of Mr Pattinson and Bells experiments along with the sampling of many fine aromas being emitted from their chemical works. Looks quite rural dunnit. Just about see your pops house and is that an Iron ore train I see passing Chemical Works Junction. View of Washington from Penshaw Hill by Tyne & Wear Archives & Museums, on Flickr They didn't get called "Smoggies" for nothing on Teesside! "It's good for yer elf" as they used to say to young kids as the forced them to breath in the gasses from the retorts above coke ovens in Crook. (as a cure for asthma!) https://britainfromabove.org.uk/en/image/EAW032394 Very rarely does the fact that an entire housing estate at Haverton Hill that was less than forty years old had to b demolished because emissions from the nearby ICI was causing the bricks and mortar to rot. Edited September 19, 2018 by Porcy Mane Link to post Share on other sites More sharing options...
APOLLO Posted September 19, 2018 Share Posted September 19, 2018 Lord and Lady had a nice view of Top Place blast furnaces at Kirkless Wigan !! Bottom left in this view https://maps.nls.uk/geo/explore/index.cfm#zoom=17&lat=53.5528&lon=-2.5968&layers=168&b=1 Not quite Consett, but very industrial back in the days of the Wigan Coal & Iron Company Brit15 2 Link to post Share on other sites More sharing options...
Porcy Mane Posted September 19, 2018 Share Posted September 19, 2018 Lord and Lady had a nice view of Top Place blast furnaces at Kirkless Wigan !! Looks like the current residents view hasn't improved a great deal. Same outlook, different crap. Link to post Share on other sites More sharing options...
Michael Delamar Posted September 27, 2018 Author Share Posted September 27, 2018 South Pelaw. https://flic.kr/p/Fofafm 1 Link to post Share on other sites More sharing options...
Staffordshire Posted October 22, 2018 Share Posted October 22, 2018 Have just come across this excellent thread, very interesting. Thought the attached maybe of some interest ..... 9F - 92098 5 1 Link to post Share on other sites More sharing options...
RBAGE Posted October 22, 2018 Share Posted October 22, 2018 Have just come across this excellent thread, very interesting. Thought the attached maybe of some interest ..... 9F - 92098 Ah! Big numbers. It's been to Darlington. Link to post Share on other sites More sharing options...
60091 Posted November 13, 2018 Share Posted November 13, 2018 Following on from a conversation on Sunday while watching South Pelaw and Sella Gill at the Newcastle show... Photos of the Class 56 and Departmental (Class 104?) DMU taken by my friend John, and reproduced with his permission. No details were recorded at the time but dates would be c1983-84. The 56 and DMU photographed near Beamish and the 56 again at South Pelaw. Regards Alan 7 Link to post Share on other sites More sharing options...
johndon Posted November 13, 2018 Share Posted November 13, 2018 Superb pics. John Link to post Share on other sites More sharing options...
RMweb Premium keefer Posted November 14, 2018 RMweb Premium Share Posted November 14, 2018 (edited) I think the DMU is the ex-class 100 'Stourton Saloon' which was the ER General Manager's inspection saloon, DB975637 & DB975664 (ex-56300 & 51122). Can just make out the homemade name board in the bottom of the centre window. Edited November 14, 2018 by keefer 1 Link to post Share on other sites More sharing options...
johndon Posted November 14, 2018 Share Posted November 14, 2018 I think the DMU is the ex-class 100 Looks like some DMU bashing is going to be required to build on for my layout then... Link to post Share on other sites More sharing options...
RMweb Premium keefer Posted November 14, 2018 RMweb Premium Share Posted November 14, 2018 (edited) meant to post a link earlier, here's the entry at railcar.co.uk: https://www.railcar.co.uk/type/class-100/non-passenger-use including a view showing the name board: https://www.railcar.co.uk/images/11286 shows there was a similar unit known as the 'York Saloon', which I wasn't aware of before Edited November 14, 2018 by keefer Link to post Share on other sites More sharing options...
RMweb Premium iands Posted November 15, 2018 RMweb Premium Share Posted November 15, 2018 Apologies for going off topic, but looking at the second image in post #493, perhaps something for the modellers to consider (for a bit of fun and a touch of realism), how about a BRUTE (or other trolley) that has rolled (or been pushed) off the platform and ended up on the track behind the buffer stop. Too dramatic, how about leaving a single van halfway down (or nearly) the platform! Link to post Share on other sites More sharing options...
Michael Delamar Posted November 24, 2018 Author Share Posted November 24, 2018 slide-scans-March-16192-92064-passes-South-Pelaw-SB--flickr by derekphillips1, on Flickr 18 Link to post Share on other sites More sharing options...
Michael Delamar Posted April 25, 2019 Author Share Posted April 25, 2019 Watching Marsden rail North Durham again. Are there any good books which show the area around Banks yard, the staithes, the hole , zig zag. That whole area? Wouldnt mind seeing a map too. Link to post Share on other sites More sharing options...
Michael Delamar Posted May 28, 2019 Author Share Posted May 28, 2019 Type 2s at South Pelaw. Click on the photo. There are much more shots in this collection. 1 1 Link to post Share on other sites More sharing options...
RMweb Premium iands Posted May 28, 2019 RMweb Premium Share Posted May 28, 2019 I like the 24 on the Iron Ore and being banked by a couple of Clayton's - try modelling that and avoid the tut-tut brigade decrying it's not prototypical! Link to post Share on other sites More sharing options...
Porcy Mane Posted May 28, 2019 Share Posted May 28, 2019 24 minutes ago, Michael Delamar said: Type 2s at South Pelaw. Click on the photo. There are much more shots in this collection. D5104 to the left. D103 right. Link to post Share on other sites More sharing options...
Porcy Mane Posted May 28, 2019 Share Posted May 28, 2019 12 minutes ago, iands said: I like the 24 on the Iron Ore and being banked by a couple of Clayton's - try modelling that and avoid the tut-tut brigade decrying it's not prototypical! Or modelling any of the class 25's or solitary 24/1 that used to work the iron ore trains singly without banking assistance. Link to post Share on other sites More sharing options...
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