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Bus at Grange Villa
This is the No 8 service going to Stanley from Chester le Street, operated by Go North East. The road is Pelton Lane, the villa main street with the shops etc. The ex-mining village of Grange Villa has a decent local bus service to the nearby towns.
Image: © Robert Graham
Taken: 12 Aug 2019
0.03 miles
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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
0.04 miles
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Pelton Lane, Grange Villa
Image: © Oliver Dixon
Taken: 31 Oct 2014
0.05 miles
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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
0.06 miles
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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
0.06 miles
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Grange Villa Working Men's Club
On Pelton Lane, the village main street. The club was once at the heart of all the mining villages in Co Durham, but many have shared the fate of village pubs and closed. Grange Villa's, happily, seems to be surviving.
Image: © Robert Graham
Taken: 12 Aug 2019
0.07 miles
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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
0.07 miles
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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
0.08 miles
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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
0.08 miles
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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
0.08 miles