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Brettanby Gardens, Ryton
View from Northumberland Road.
Image: © Andrew Curtis
Taken: 7 Jan 2011
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May Avenue, Ryton
View from Northumberland Road.
Image: © Andrew Curtis
Taken: 7 Jan 2011
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Junction with Northumberland Road, Ryton
Elvaston Road is on the left
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Elvaston House and Manor House are set back from the road.
There is a photo from this location from around 1900 here http://isee.gateshead.gov.uk/detail.php?t=objects&type=all&f=&s=elvaston&record=0
Image: © Andrew Curtis
Taken: 7 Jan 2011
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Barmoor Lane & Elvaston Road, Ryton
Looking east from the Village Green, Barmoor Lane turns into Elvaston Road at the distant junction with Northumberland Road. On the right is Town Farm Cottage, Town Farm House and the Granary. Next is Lynndale and Northumberland House on the corner. The shops in Elvaston Road are beyond the junction with the ornate tower and spire overlooking the street.
There is a photo dated c1896 from the same location here http://isee.gateshead.gov.uk/detail.php?t=objects&type=all&f=&s=ryton&record=168
Image: © Andrew Curtis
Taken: 3 Jan 2011
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Barmoor Lane, Ryton, view west
The Village Green is on the right, beyond the junction with Station Bank.
Image: © Andrew Curtis
Taken: 3 Jan 2011
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Former Lloyds Bank, Elvaston Road, Ryton
The west end of the former Victorian shopping parade on Elvaston Road
Image, now mostly converted to residential use, but some of the shop fronts have been retained. One of the shops has an oriel window topped by a turret with a spire. It was built as an observatory.
The corner building, the former Lloyds Bank, was probably built as a house in the C19th century, was converted into a bank after 1912. It was disused by 1992 and was converted to a medical Centre.
http://www.pastscape.org.uk/hob.aspx?hob_id=1345785
Image: © Andrew Curtis
Taken: 3 Jan 2011
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White House, Ryton
Stands on Barmoor Lane opposite the Village Green.
The house was built c1780. Charles Thorpe, rector of Ryton 1807-63, founded 'The Penny Savings Bank' in this building about 1816.
Tyne and Wear HER (8357): Ryton, Barmoor Lane, White House http://www.twsitelines.info
Image: © Andrew Curtis
Taken: 3 Jan 2011
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Terraced houses on Whitewell Lane, Ryton
Image: © Oliver Dixon
Taken: 23 Sep 2016
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Former Elvaston Road Shops, Ryton
Another view of
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The shops are shown when they were relatively new around 1910 here http://isee.gateshead.gov.uk/detail.php?t=objects&type=all&f=&s=elvaston&record=5
Image: © Andrew Curtis
Taken: 3 Jan 2011
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Whitewell Lane, Ryton
According to the C19th century local historian, William Bourn, Whitewell Lane got its name from a well on the west side of the street which was usually whitewashed on the outside. There is an old photo here http://isee.gateshead.gov.uk/detail.php?t=objects&type=all&f=&s=ryton&record=79
Image: © Andrew Curtis
Taken: 3 Jan 2011
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