IMAGES TAKEN NEAR TO
West Street, CHESTER LE STREET, DH2 3LW
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Image Listing (31 Images Found)
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West Street, Grange Villa
View along this long terraced street. This ex-mining village consists mainly of a series of these streets, built for the miners in the early C20, before the Great War.
Image: © Robert Graham
Taken: 12 Aug 2019
0.01 miles
2
Satellite dishes
I am guessing that satellite is the only way of receiving digital TV in this small rural village. This is East Street, one of several similar terraces in Grange Villa.
Image: © Richard Dorrell
Taken: 26 Jul 2011
0.05 miles
3
Unusual garden feature
A disused mine truck stands on a short section of rail and is now a feature in a small garden area of the ex-mining village of Grange Villa. The main road in the picture is Pelton Lane. On the right is East Street.
Image: © Richard Dorrell
Taken: 26 Jul 2011
0.06 miles
4
View up Pelton Lane to Grange Villa
This is the route into Grange Villa from the east, coming from Pelton Lane Ends.
Image: © Robert Graham
Taken: 12 Aug 2019
0.07 miles
5
Front Street, Grange Villa
The blue and yellow sign explains that the District Council is working towards a better district - here in Grange Villa with a regeneration scheme of rejuvenation and traffic calming. The most obvious new features are the paving of the walkways, the many bollards and the period style street lighting.
Image: © Richard Dorrell
Taken: 26 Jul 2011
0.07 miles
6
Mining memorial at Grange Villa
This stands on the bankside beside Pelton Lane, the main entrance to the village from the east. It commemorates the history of this little ex-mining village. The local pit was West Pelton Colliery, which stood just to the south of the village. The memorial consists of a couple of old winding wheels and a tub, as the little mining cars were called. Many of the local villages have similar installations.
Image: © Robert Graham
Taken: 12 Aug 2019
0.07 miles
7
Village entrance at Grange Villa
This is the way into the village from the east, along Pelton lane. The bus from Chester le Street comes in this way also, hence the bus stops.
Image: © Robert Graham
Taken: 12 Aug 2019
0.07 miles
8
Coronation Terrace, Grange Villa
This street must be named for the coronation of either Edward VII in 1902, or George V in 1911. I suspect it's the latter. The first houses in this old pit village were built in the 4th quarter of the C19, but most of the present village dates from the period between 1900 and the First World War. This view is along the main village street.
Image: © Robert Graham
Taken: 12 Aug 2019
0.08 miles
9
Reminder of the past
Two disused pit head winding wheels have been 'planted' to form a feature among the shrubs in a small public garden in the one-time mining village of Grange Villa.
Image: © Richard Dorrell
Taken: 26 Jul 2011
0.08 miles
10
Queen Street, Grange Villa
Seen from its junction with Pelton Lane, this is one of several similar streets of small terraced houses in this rural ex-mining settlement.
Image: © Richard Dorrell
Taken: 26 Jul 2011
0.08 miles