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  Artist's Impression
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  Pattinson Town
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  Pattinson Town
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  Chemical Works
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  Old Road to Cox Green
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  Newall's - 1998
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  Chemical Works - 1890
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  Washington South
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  Middlefield Row
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  Wilden Terrace
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  Blast Row
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  Chemical Works
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  British Empire Exhibition
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  View from Cox Green
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  View from Cox Green
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  ... / A Few Years Later
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  View from Monument
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  The Spoil Heaps
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  Cricket Team - 1950s
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  Washington v Germany

Memories of  The Chemical Works Institute

by Albert Ward, Bricklayer, Washington Chemical Works

I served my time as an Apprentice Bricklayer at ‘THE CHEMICAL’ while living in Wilden Terrace, so I remember this Building very well.  It was nicknamed The ‘TUTE’, derived from Institute, and I had loads of fun there.  I played billiards with my mates and we took part in a number of other activities.  There was always lots of reading material available so it was often referred to as 'The Reading Rooms'.  The ‘TUTE’ wasn't owned by 'THE CHEMICAL'.  I believe it was the Miners who were responsible for building it as a Waterside version of the Miners’ Welfare Halls & Institutes in Usworth, Washington and Glebe.  It was gone by the early 1960s.

Many Thanks Albert.
( Jim )