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Ryton Village, RYTON, NE40 3QQ

The Village Green is on the right, beyond the junction with Station Bank.

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

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

Elvaston Road is on the left Image 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

Now two cottages but formerly there was a third to the right which functioned as the Post Office till at least 1914. The Jolly Fellows Inn Image is on the right beyond the modern houses, Broad Acre and Brantfell. There is a photo from c1910 here http://isee.gateshead.gov.uk/detail.php?t=objects&type=all&f=&s=ryton&record=166

There is supposed to have been a cross, perhaps originally a market cross, on Ryton village green before the erection of a new one in 1795. This was designed and sculpted by local mason Thomas Chaucer. It is located on the site where John Wesley preached on the village green. This was itself replaced by a modern pillar and cross in 1951. The original cross from the top of the monument currently stands in the grounds of Tynedale House Image http://www.pastscape.org/hob.aspx?hob_id=22981 The view is towards Image and the church. There is a different view here Image There are old photos here http://isee.gateshead.gov.uk/detail.php?t=objects&type=all&f=&s=ryton&record=214 and http://isee.gateshead.gov.uk/detail.php?t=objects&type=all&f=&s=ryton+inn&record=4 and an old postcard here http://isee.gateshead.gov.uk/detail.php?t=objects&type=all&f=&s=ryton&record=215

This is the Village Green towards Station Bank, with the Village Cross in foreground.

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