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Crossroads in Greenside village centre
View along Lead Road to the junction with Rockwood Hill Road, which is right of the Methodist Church in the centre of the picture. Spen Lane goes off to the left, on the edge of the picture, beside the War Memorial.
Image: © Robert Graham
Taken: 4 Jul 2022
0.02 miles
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Rear of Greenside Methodist Church
The chapel is on the crossroads at the centre of the village. From the plaque on the gable end here, the original was built in 1781, but re-built in 1904.
Image: © Robert Graham
Taken: 4 Jul 2022
0.03 miles
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Houses in the centre of Greenside
On the north side of Lead Road, in the centre of this ex mining village.
Image: © Robert Graham
Taken: 4 Jul 2022
0.03 miles
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Coal tub, Greenside
A number of former mining villages have installed relics of the days of mining. This coal tub bears the inscription "The history and heritage of mining in Greenside is preserved through the local group Banner Tales. This memorial coal tub is dedicated to the memory of all those who worked at Greenside Pit and their families."
Image: © Oliver Dixon
Taken: 23 Sep 2016
0.04 miles
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War memorial, Greenside
In addition to the dead of two World Wars, there is an inscription to a villager killed in Afghanistan, 2013. Sited in the angle between Lead Road and Spen Lane.
Image: © Oliver Dixon
Taken: 23 Sep 2016
0.05 miles
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Greenside Primary School
The village school was built at the start of the 20th century, after the expansion of the village following the opening of Greenside Colliery in 1902. It's still in the original building, although only for primary pupils.
Image: © Robert Graham
Taken: 4 Jul 2022
0.05 miles
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Greenside War memorial
This stands at the crossroads of Lead Road and Spen Lane in the centre of the village. Has names of the fallen from the two world wars engraved on it.
Image: © Robert Graham
Taken: 4 Jul 2022
0.05 miles
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War memorial at Greenside
Greenside is a small village within Gateshead MBC.
Image: © Trevor Littlewood
Taken: 27 Sep 2018
0.05 miles
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Greenside village centre
At the junction of Rockwood Hill Road, on the left, with Lead Road, the main street through the village.
Image: © Robert Graham
Taken: 4 Jul 2022
0.05 miles
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Bottom of Rockwood Hill Road
This road leads from the centre of Greenside village, at the crossroads with Lead Road, up the steep Rockwood Hill westwards. Most of this part of the village dates from the Edwardian times when the village coal industry was expanded.
Image: © Robert Graham
Taken: 4 Jul 2022
0.06 miles