A Stroll Along

Manor Road

( The New Inn to Saint Michael's Church )

Front Street from Victoria Road
Lloyd's Bank (Dental Surgery above)  -  The New Inn Corner c.1955
Usworth Station straight ahead.   Turn left at Lloyd's Bank to enter Manor Road.

Map of  Manor Road
( 1951 )

[ Note the large Field, opposite Richardson Terrace, sloping up to the Path from Manor House Farm to The Style Inn. ]

Looking back from Entrance to Manor Road
Walter Willson, groceries  -  J.J. Docherty, butcher  -  The Bird Inn  -  The New Inn
Lloyd's Bank (left), Dental Surgery upstairs.

Usworth Lodge Banner and Colliery Band entering Manor Road
en route to Usworth Miners' Welfare Hall.

Manor Road  -   Richardson Terrace
This large building became Washington Masonic Hall.

[ Could this Hall have previously been a Miners' Hall? ]

Looking Back:
Ginny Bone's Shop viewed from opposite Nicholson's Newsagents.

[ Note the Chapel, opposite the Masonic Hall. ]

Nicholson's  'Paper Shop'  on Manor Road.
Ginny Bone's, just off-picture, right.

Manor Park Estate (left) covered the best Children's Sledging Field in Washington.
We called it Barley Dunn's Field and it was part of Manor House Farm.
[ See 1951 Map above. ]

Junction with Tyne Gardens  -  Usworth end of Richardson Terrace

MANOR HOUSE  &  MANOR HOUSE FARM

The Manor House is referred to as Old Hall.

Usworth Miners' Welfare Hall

Manor Road

Usworth Miners' Hall  &  Usworth School

Manor Road

Usworth Park Playground on Manor Road.
Usworth Miners' Welfare Hall (left)  -  Usworth Colliery Mixed School (right)

Manor Road running from former site of Manor House  ( NW corner of junction with road to Single Row )
to its end at St. Michaels Church ( last building where Manor Road meets Edith Avenue ).

Saint Michael's And All Angels - formerly The Mission Church.
Manor Road ends at the junction with Edith Avenue (left) and Waterloo Road (right).

[ Straight up the bank to The New Inn ]