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Description: | Blaydon town centre as we think of it today did not develop until relatively recently. Original settlements at Blaydon were concentrated in the Bridge Street area, west of the current town centre. The arrival of the railway and development of coal mining in the mid 19th century saw Blaydon expand into a busy town and new streets developed in the area currently occupied by Blaydon Shopping Centre. Blaydon became a separate parish under the name of St. Cuthbert, Stella, in August, 1844 and St. Cuthbert's Church was erected to serve the growing population. Church Street, Wesley Place and Tyne Street formed the heart of the new town until their demolition in the 1970s. | Format: | image/jpeg | License: | http://www.asaplive.com/Lco/Lco.cfm?ccs=629&cs=2674&Preview=1 | Publisher: | Gateshead Council | Subjects: | Streets | Temporal: | name=1920s; start=1920; end=1929; | Source: | iSee Gateshead | Creator: | Unknown | Identifier: | http://isee.gateshead.gov.uk/detail.php?... | Language: | en-GB | Format: | image/jpeg | Go to resource |
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