IMAGES TAKEN NEAR TO
Whittonstall Road, NEWCASTLE UPON TYNE, NE17 7JZ
Introduction
This page details the photographs taken nearby to Whittonstall Road, NE17 7JZ 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 Map
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Image Listing (27 Images Found)
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West School House, Chopwell
On Whittonstall Road in the centre of the old mining village of Chopwell. Originally a school here. This was probably the masters house. Dates from early C20.
Image: © Robert Graham
Taken: 17 Aug 2016
0.02 miles
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Chopwell Colliery Memorials
The stone to the left is dedicated to all those who worked at the colliery between 1896 and 1966. The wheel lists all recorded deaths at the colliery.
Image: © Anthony Foster
Taken: 18 Dec 2016
0.11 miles
5
Colliery memorial at Chopwell
Disused colliery winding engine wheels are often seen displayed in this way in north-eastern pit villages as a tribute to their coal mining history. This one at Chopwell is a little different in that it's a monument to those miners recorded as having suffered accidental death between 1782 and 1966.
Image: © Trevor Littlewood
Taken: 20 Dec 2020
0.11 miles
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Memorial stone, Chopwell
Honouring those who worked at Chopwell Colliery from 1896. The stone stands next to a winding wheel which quotes the starting date at 1782, presumably a reference to an older colliery on the same site. Mining ceased in 1966.
Image: © Oliver Dixon
Taken: 21 Mar 2019
0.11 miles
7
Path to Whittonstall Road
Chopwell was categorised as a "category D village" by Durham County Council. With the decline of coal-mining locally, 114 villages were classified in this way in 1951, and another seven in 1964, including Chopwell. They were left to wither and die, without economic assistance or development. The policy ended in 1977, but many still have an old fashioned air, contrasting with newer areas of commuter housing.
Image: © Christine Johnstone
Taken: 12 Apr 2012
0.11 miles
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Chopwell Colliery Wheel
Like many of the former coalmining villages in the North-East, a winding wheel commemorates the local colliery. The stone to the left dates the colliery from 1896, but on the wheel itself is a plaque listing about 70 known fatalities from 1782 (presumably including those from an older colliery on the same site). Mining ceased in 1966.
Image: © Oliver Dixon
Taken: 21 Mar 2019
0.11 miles
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Gateshead West Community Fire Station, Chopwell
Built in the 1970s as Chopwell Community Fire Station. Chopwell was categorised as a "category D village" by Durham County Council. With the decline of coal-mining locally, 114 villages were classified in this way in 1951, and another seven in 1964, including Chopwell. They were left to wither and die, without economic assistance or development. The policy ended in 1977, but many still have an old fashioned air, contrasting with newer areas of commuter housing.
Image: © Christine Johnstone
Taken: 12 Apr 2012
0.12 miles
10
Chopwell fire station
Chopwell fire station, Derwent Street, Chopwell, Tyne & Wear
Image: © Kevin Hale
Taken: 26 Nov 2006
0.14 miles