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Swindale Cottages off The Dene, Wylam
The cottages were built in 1981. On the grass is a large piece of blast furnace slag, another reminder of the Wylam Ironworks which occupied a site nearby.
Image: © Andrew Curtis
Taken: 1 May 2018
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Flowerpot man, Wylam
Image: © Andrew Curtis
Taken: 25 Jan 2015
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Open space between Jackson Road & The Dene, Wylam
Formerly part of Engine Dene and an industrialised area when Wylam Iron Works was in operation around 1890. The land was not developed when the housing estate was built in the early 1960s.
Image: © Andrew Curtis
Taken: 27 Apr 2018
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Main Road, Wylam
The walls lining the road in the village are largely composed of iron slag from the former iron works in the village.
Image: © Andrew Curtis
Taken: 25 Jan 2015
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Fox & Hounds, Wylam
Image: © Anthony Foster
Taken: 5 Sep 2015
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The Fox & Hounds, Wylam
Image: © Andrew Curtis
Taken: 28 Dec 2011
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Fox & Hounds, Main Road, Wylam
There is a photo here from 2011
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Image: © Andrew Curtis
Taken: 27 Apr 2018
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Houses near Florist Hall, The Dene, Wylam
Like Florist Hall these houses (Florist Cottages) are stone built and presumably much earlier than many of the surrounding houses on the estate. Florist (or Florists') Hall is one of the few buildings in Wylam on the first edition OS map and is located behind the cottages.
"At a short distance from the colliery stands Florists' Hall, with its extensive garden, containing near seven acres of land, and which is famed for producing the best and earliest strawberries in the north. It is the property of Mrs. Hall, of Newcastle."
Eneas Mackenzie (1825).
Image: © Andrew Curtis
Taken: 27 Apr 2018
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Wylam Library, Falcon Terrace
Also known as the Falcon Centre. Wylam Railway Museum was opened in part of this former school building in 1981, the bicentenary of the birth of George Stephenson, to commemorate Wylam’s unique contribution to railway history. There are displays on the famous local railway pioneers, George Stephenson ('the Father of the Railways'), William Hedley (manager of the Wylam Colliery and designer of the historic locomotives, Puffing Billy and Wylam Dilly), Timothy Hackworth (colliery blacksmith) and Nicholas Wood (colliery and early railway engineer).
WHERE RAILWAYS WERE BORN: The Story of Wylam and its railway pioneers by Philip R.B.Brooks http://www.tynedaleheritage.org/PdfWordDocs/WhereRailwaysWereBorn.PDF
Image: © Andrew Curtis
Taken: 25 Dec 2011
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Hadrian's Cycleway passes under Main Road, Wylam
The original arch bridge which spanned the former Scotswood, Newburn and Wylam Railway, now Hadrian's Cycleway, has been filled in with a functional modern concrete underpass.
Image: © Oliver Dixon
Taken: 23 Feb 2018
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