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Description: | This photograph was taken in the 1880s and shows one of the oldest parts of Gateshead High Street. - From left to right is clogger W. Jones (252 High Street), joiner R. Millican and hay and straw dealer William Atkinson, (246 High Street). The photograph shows the junction of the High Street with Jackson Street, originally known as Colliers Chare. On the corner of the High Street and Jackson Street is inn keeper J. Cockburn (244 High Street) . William Atkinson’s shop was demolished not long after this photograph was taken and the Metropole Theatre was built on the site in 1896. J. Cockburn’s Inn was taken over by Swinburne and Co. and became the Atlas Hotel. | Format: | image/jpeg | License: | http://www.asaplive.com/Lco/Lco.cfm?ccs=629&cs=2674&Preview=1 | Publisher: | Gateshead Council | Rights holder: | Gateshead Council | Subjects: | Shops Streets | Temporal: | name=Victorian; start=1837; end=1901; | Source: | iSee Gateshead | Creator: | Dodds, Edwin | Identifier: | http://isee.gateshead.gov.uk/detail.php?... | Language: | en-GB | Format: | image/jpeg | Go to resource |
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