NOTICE BOARD
Last Upload: Friday, 1st July 2022.
A Nostalgic Journey 'in & around' the original Village of Washington
[ Click above picture for views of the 'F' Pit Heaps. ]
Washington Miners Remembered
Statue & Blue Plaque
Harraton War Memorial
* SEE NOTE BELOW *
The Memorial to the 'Brave Men of Harraton Parish' will be 100 years old on 22nd July 2022.
Several Events are being planned to mark this Special Occasion.
[ For more details: Click the Monument Image above. ]
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Some Recent Additions
1.
Penshaw Monument
2.
Demolition!
3.
Kelly's Directory - 1925
1. This Model, fitted to a Bird Tray, is currently located in 'Old Washington'. Also a 'near location' picture.
2. Article upgraded to include two 1970s images - The Demolition of Bobby Lee's School. Thanks to WHS.
3. 'Local Area Extracts' from the 1925 Edition of Kelly's Directory added to our existing 1890 & 1914 Editions.
4.
Glebe School c.1915 - Page 1, Tab 5.
5 * NEW *
What The Dickens? Go to Last Tab
4. It wasn't all Maths & English for these 1900s pupils. This is a Sewing Class. Thanks to Valerie Jordan.
5. Usworth Colliery Senior School. It's 1954 and the Headmaster 'emulates' a Charles Dickens character.
6.
Former Farm - Top of Well Bank
7. * NEW *
Biddick School Class1 - 1950
6. One of our Farm Collection pages has been totally reorganised to include the above Farm. Name it!
Personally, I first heard its name only a few weeks ago! Thanks to Ernie Guy.
7. Excellent Photograph of Biddick School - Class 1, 1950 - including names. Thanks to Jeane Armstrong.
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What's Where?
Website Map / Location Index
[ Click one of the above Images. ]
"Nothing is ever really lost to us as long as we remember it."
Lucy Maud Montgomery
(1874-1942)
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