IMAGES TAKEN NEAR TO
Glebe Road, NEWCASTLE UPON TYNE, NE12 7NB

Introduction

This page details the photographs taken nearby to Glebe Road, NE12 7NB by members of the Geograph project.

The Geograph project started in 2005 with the aim of publishing, organising and preserving representative images for every square kilometre of Great Britain, Ireland and the Isle of Man.

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Image Listing (25 Images Found)

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The Methodist Chapel, Westmoor
Image: © Bill Henderson Taken: 4 Sep 2013
0.06 miles
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West Moor Methodist Church
Image: © Anthony Foster Taken: 7 Dec 2015
0.06 miles
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Dial Cottage, West Moor
The two cottages in the photograph were once known as 'Paradise Row'. The first one in the view is now better known as 'Dial Cottage' or 'George Stephenson's Cottage', as this was the home of the famous engineer when he worked at Killingworth Colliery and when he invented the steam locomotives, the 'Blutcher' and the 'Rocket'.
Image: © Bill Henderson Taken: 20 Sep 2015
0.07 miles
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Plaque and sundial, Dial Cottage, West Moor
The sundial and plaque above the front door to Dial Cottage. The text on the plaque reads: GEORGE STEPHENSON, ENGINEER, INVENTOR OF THE LOCOMOTIVE ENGINE LIVED IN THIS COTTAGE FROM 1805 TO 1823 HIS FIRST LOCOMOTIVE (BLUCHER) WAS BUILT AT THE ADJACENT COLLIERY WAGON SHOPS, AND ON JULY 25TH 1814 WAS PLACED ON THE WAGONWAY WHICH CROSSES THE ROAD AT THE EAST END OF THE COTTAGE.
Image: © Graham Robson Taken: 21 Aug 2016
0.07 miles
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Dial Cottage, Great Lime Road
Once home to George Stephenson and his son Robert, the famous railway engineers.
Image: © Roger Cornfoot Taken: Unknown
0.07 miles
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Dial Cottage, West Moor
Dial Cottage in West Moor was once home to the famous engineer George Stephenson and his son Robert was born here.
Image: © Graham Robson Taken: 21 Aug 2016
0.07 miles
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Entrance to Dial Cottage
The front door to Dial Cottage, once home to George Stephenson.
Image: © Graham Robson Taken: 21 Aug 2016
0.08 miles
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Dial Cottage, West Moor
For 18 years between 1804 and 1822 the cottage was the home of George Stephenson and his son Robert. Above the front door is a sundial Image which they made in 1816, and from which the cottage takes its name. George began building steam locomotives in a colliery workshop behind the cottage. In 1814 he tested his first engine 'Blucher' along the nearby Killingworth Waggonway Image As many as 16 locomotives may have been built in the workshop.
Image: © Anthony Foster Taken: 7 Dec 2015
0.08 miles
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Dial Cottage (George Stephenson's Cottage), Westmoor
This is 'Dial Cottage', Westmoor (formerly Killingworth Colliery in the 19th Century). George Stephenson lived here when he was the engineer at Killingworth Colliery. It was in workshops at the rear of this cottage, that the famous 'Rocket' locomotive was built. The cottage is now a museum. George Stephenson also made the sun dial over the front door, which gives the cottage its name.
Image: © Bill Henderson Taken: Unknown
0.08 miles
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The sundial, Dial Cottage, West Moor
For 18 years between 1804 and 1822 Dial Cottage Image was the home of George Stephenson and his son Robert. They made the sundial above the front door in 1816, and from which the cottage takes its name. George began building steam locomotives in a colliery workshop behind the cottage. In 1814 he tested his first engine 'Blucher' along the nearby Killingworth Waggonway Image As many as 16 locomotives may have been built in the workshop.
Image: © Anthony Foster Taken: 7 Dec 2015
0.08 miles
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