Places to see in ( Stanley - UK )
Places to see in ( Stanley - UK )
Stanley is a former colliery town and civil parish in County Durham, England. Centred on a hilltop between Chester-le-Street and Consett, the town lies south west of Gateshead. Stanley was formerly divided into three distinct settlements – the main town of West Stanley and the mining villages of East Stanley and South Stanley. Through a process of gradual expansion, these have become amalgamated into one town, with East and South Stanley no longer officially used as town names (although they are still recognised colloquially).
The civil parish of Stanley was created in 2007 and takes in not only Stanley, but the villages of Annfield Plain, Tanfield, Craghead, Catchgate, Tantobie, Tanfield Lea, South Moor, White-le-Head,Bloemfontein, Clough Dene, Greencroft, Harelaw, Kip Hill, The Middles, New Kyo, No Place, Oxhill, Quaking Houses, Shield Row, and West Kyo. The current Parish covers the vast majority of the former Stanley Urban District Council area, with the exception of Dipton and Burnopfield.
Stanley was first mentioned in 1211; however, some neolithic and Roman remains have been found in the area. The town's name is derived from the Old English for 'Stoney Field'. In John Speed's map of Co.Durham Stanley appears called Standley. The West Stanley Pit Disaster, one of the worst coal mining disasters in British history took place in Stanley at West Stanley Colliery on 16 February 1909 when over 160 people were killed in the Burns Pit disaster.
Over recent decades, Stanley has suffered hard times economically, with the closure of the coal pits followed by the loss of major employers at Ever Ready in nearby Tanfield, as well as the closure of both the British Steel plant and Shotley Bridge General Hospital in the neighbouring town of Consett. Local businesses in Stanley town centre were also significantly affected by the development of the giant MetroCentre shopping complex in nearby Gateshead, with local trade decreasing as a result.
The town now stretches into what were formerly neighbouring villages and towns such as Annfield Plain to the west and Beamish and Pelton to the east. This sometimes creates confusion over which local authority is responsible for certain areas, particularly around the Durham-Gateshead border to the northeast near the Causey Arch.
In recent decades, with the decline of traditional industries and the encroachment of large supermarkets and chain stores, 'Old Stanley' has declined, with many locally owned shops and pubs closing. The town's main shopping area, Front Street, is pedestrianised, housing independent shops alongside large chains such as Boots. A market is held on Front Street on Thursdays and Saturdays.
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Closed Pubs of Anfield Plain and Catchgate Co Durham November 2012
Four closed pubs on a 2 mile strech of road. In Anfield Plain, Fosters Lodge and the Plainsman (x Stanhope and Tyne Hotel) being demolished after a fire in May. In Catchgate the Smiths Arms and the Crown and Thistle.
Tour of Beamish Museum - guide to the Living History Museum of the North.
Our tour of Beamish Museum - or Beamish Living Museum of the North. This is great place to visit in north England. The Beamish Museum is a large museum split into various time zones. There is the 1900 Town, 1820s Pockerley Hall, 1900s Colliery Town, 1940s Home Farm and Rowley Train Station. You can also ride the historic vehicles they have in the park. Electric trams, omnibus, old double-decker buses and a steam engine. The Beamish Museum gift shop is well stocked with Beamish and old-time gifts.
So if you're looking at where to visit in North England, what to do in North England then this is a recommended attraction.
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So we've come this morning to the Beamish Museum in Stanley in County Durham
They're all in period gear - all the staff.
North Eastern Railway, Rowley Station. Goods depot. Coal merchant
The Weighbridge Point
There's hundreds of people in this park but nobody's come in this railway station so it's obviously not one of the more popular locations of the park
1857
It's got the old train station there
So this must be the station master's hUt
No train service at Rowley Station. Puffin Billy's running at the Waggonway until 4 30.
It's a very big museum isn't it.
Ravensworth Terrace
Women's votes, suffrage. Votes for women.
Back out to the park opposite with the bandstand
There's the bar, the Sun Inn
Annfield Plain Industrial Cooperative Society Ltd, Beamish
Sunderland Daily Echo newspaper office
Motor and Cycle Works
Bank manager's office It's the Provincial Grand Lodge of Durham
Horse trough for the carriages, and the old mailbox
And there's new developments for the museum being built there.
It's a very big museum. It covers a lot of land here
Pockerley Old Hall Georgian landscape
Pockerley Waggonway
Colliery Village there
Leasingthorne Colliery Welfare Hall and Community Centre
Remaking Beamish 1950s town Cinema, Welfare...
It's a little climb up to Pockerley Old Hall is up here This was 1820s this whole section of the park
It's very good, they've got the tram, the buses, the old omnibus thing. A lot of transport options here
There's two horses in here. It says it's a working stables
village church
1825
So there's another ride you can get on.
They're all part of the admission price all these rides, you can get on the steam engine there or the trams or the buses. You don't pay it's just a hop on hop off kind of thing all included in your admission. The good thing with this as well, the admission prices, it's a year's ticket. There's only one price £19 i think it was. £19 and that's a year's pass for the museum which is a really good deal because you can't do this in one day. It's a bit too far for us to come up again for another day but a good deal if you can take advantage.
The old miners' cottages
Similar to St Fagans
Pithill Methodist Church
Chapel sorry - Methodist Chapel
As you would expect, old time gifts in here
Old Newcastle and Sunderland shirts
That was Beamish Museum. Very good museum. It's a heck of a lot in there you can easily spend a full day in there easily. There's loads of stuff we didn't see.
Hetton Le Hole History Tyne and Wear ????????
A quick walk around Hetton town centre and you find links to George Stephenson, one of the founders of Locomotion, trains & how it really helped the coalmining community take off.
As well as cenotaphs, war memorials & demolished church (Church of Saint Nicholas)
if you want to know more about the history of Hetton-Le-Hole
The Church of St Nicholas
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0:00 memorial to The Rocket
6:11 WW1 Memorial for WMC
9:04 demolished Church
14:00 overgrown graves
Bygone County Durham Mystery Tour
Another mystery tour around County Durham visiting Tudhoe Grange, Kirk Merrington, Aycliffe Village,Darlington, Hartlepool, Blackhall, Seaham, Roker, Sunderland, Washington. Birtley, Langley Park, Tow Law, Middleton in Teesdale, Eastgate, Westgate, Hamsterley & bracks wood Bishop Auckland.
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The bus engine was recorded at Kirby Stephen Classic Commercial Vintage Vehicle Rally but I forgot to note the manufacturer, I'm sure that someone will inform me what it is?
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Sound of engine recorded using a Panasonic TM/SD 10 Camcorder.
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Queen Alexandra Bridge, Sunderland, England. (4K)
The Queen Alexandra Bridge is a road traffic, pedestrian and (former) railway bridge spanning the River Wear in North East England, linking the Deptford and Southwick areas of Sunderland. The steel truss bridge was designed by Charles A. Harrison (a nephew of Robert Stephenson's assistant). It was built by Sir William Arrol between 1907 and 1909 and officially opened by The Earl of Durham, on behalf of Queen Alexandra on 10 June 1909.
In 1899 the North Eastern Railway and the Sunderland Corporation agreed to build the bridge to improve communications across the river and to connect the coalfields of Annfield Plain and Washington with Sunderland's south docks. Before the completion of the bridge, road traffic crossing the river had to use one of two ferries which crossed below near to where the bridge is today. As the bridge was due to be built near to the successful shipyards of the Wear, a clause in the North Eastern Railway Act 1900 required that only one arch span be built over the river to give a clearance of 85 ft (26 m) above high water level.
The approaches to the bridge were completed in 1907 by the Mitchell Brothers of Glasgow and the bridge proper comprises three 200-foot (61 m) land spans (weighing 1,000 tons of steel each) and a 300-foot (91 m) river span (weighing 2,600 tons of steel) and was the heaviest bridge in the United Kingdom at the time. The bridge was built from each side of the river and the two halves came together at noon on 15 October 1908. In all, a total of 8,500 tons of steel, 4,500 tons of granite, 60,000 tons of red sandstone from Dumfries, and 350,000 bricks were used[1] and the cost of completion was £450,000 (equivalent to £45.5 million in 2016). The bridge also housed gas and water mains and in later years, high voltage electricity cables and a pumped rising-main for sewage.
Travelling north.
About six million tons of coal passed over the upper-deck annually for export but the trade rapidly declined at the end of the 1910s. For the last few years only one train per day passed over the bridge. The last goods train ran over in 1921, but the lower-deck continues as a valuable road link. In the Second World War, the upper-deck was used as a searchlight and anti-aircraft platform. The railway and decking at each end of the bridge were finally removed near to the end of the 20th century. A large free standing brick and stone viaduct fragment remains on the north side of the Bridge.
From 21 March 2005, the bridge had been restricted to southbound traffic whilst repainting and repair work was carried out on the 96-year-old structure, which was due to take almost a year to complete. It reopened for both lanes of traffic on 12 October 2006, having been partly closed for 18 months and costing £6.3m in repairs.[3]
Previously classified as part of the A1231, the road across the bridge was reclassified as the B1539 when the Northern Spire Bridge was opened to traffic on 29 August 2018.
Slaley to Stanley via Dashcam
Travel from Slaley in Northumberland, to Stanley, County Durham on a very wet day in April 2012. Stanley now stretches into the neighbouring villages and towns of Annfield Plain to the west with Beamish and Pelton to the east. Refurbishment of Stanley town centre in recent years has seen the opening of a new solar-powered bus interchange and an extension to the Louisa Centre leisure facility incorporating a new town swimming pool.
Stanley is renowned for its annual summer play scheme situated at Stanley Youth Centre. This has been running since 1972 and is organised and run by a group of local people recruiting international volunteers.
Slaley Village six miles south of the Tyne valley, the village of Slaley provides an excellent starting point for visitors to this part of Northumberland. The area is still farming country, with woods, streams and fields, and a network of footpaths and bridleways and now features on Facebook, the main aim of the page is for everyone in the community to share things with each other in a safe and relaxed way.
Slaley Hall is an Edwardian mansion in 1000 acres of Northumberland moorland and forest, now an elegant luxury hotel. A unique location, with fabulous interiors.
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Snow in tha Plain Part Deux: HELL FREEZES OVER
1st of December 2010, after roughly a week of on and off snow.
Middleton-in-Teesdale camping trip/High Force/Low Force/Burnhope Reservoir/Stanhope,21-24 Sept 2020
A 3 day camping trip up on the top of the pennines,at the very picturesque Middleton-in-Tees.
I stayed on the Dale View caravan park, where it was only £5 a night fOr camping,a small field on the site was sufficient.
After a walk in the village via a pint and a visit to the butchers,I decided to venture along the Pennine way to visit both waterfalls, High and Low Force. Both very spectacular and an enjoyable day. I aslo did a loop of Burnhope reservoir the following day despite the rain. I then drove around,visited the lovely Stanhope and went down to the Train station on the old Weardale line,where I found some nice old carriages.I ventured over the higher roads on the way back to Middleton in very poor conditons,sadly the rain continued all day so was unable to visit elsewhere. However I saw plenty on this enjoyable getaway.#Pennines #Highforce #Lowforce
Packhorse Inn crookgate in the snow
A bad snow day we calledtin at this Inn for coffee while waiting for the roads to reopen
We NEVER knew this about the 1900s Victorian and Edward era. Incredible history story telling
Beamish is a world famous open air museum, telling the story of life in North East England during the Edwardian and Victorian period and also 1820s, 1900s, 1940s and 1950s.
We arrived by an old style Edwardian replica bus based on the London B type (in Newcastle Corporation livery). We then visited the Edwardian homes, including the solicitor & dentist. We also headed over to the hardware store and bakery for lots of useful history lessons on what life was like in back in the olden days.
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The North Easts Closed Pubs 2012 Leadgate The Jolly Drovers
A few miles East of Consett, closed earlier this year. 2.11.2012
C2C Bike Ride: Jubilee Terrace, Washington
England Cumbrian Way/C2C bicycle tour. This is #02 of the Chester-le-Street to Sunderland day's ride.
C2C Bike Ride: Beside the Sunderland Hwy.
England Cumbrian Way/C2C bicycle tour. This is #03 of the Chester-le-Street to Sunderland day's ride.
C2C Bike Ride. Bale Hill Rd. and path to Parkhead Station
Video 10 of my Cumbrian Way/C2C bicycle ride Rookhope to Hett Hills segment.
C2C Bike Ride: Under the A19, Osborne Rd.
England Cumbrian Way/C2C bicycle tour. This is #04 of the Chester-le-Street to Sunderland day's ride.
Beamish Museum
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The Mahogany Drift Mine is original to Beamish, having opened in 1855 and after closing, was brought back into use in 1921 to transport coal from Beamish Park Drift to Beamish Cophill Colliery. It opened as a museum display in 1979. Included in the display is the winding engine and a short section of trackway used to transport tubs of coal to the surface, and a mine office. Visitor access into the mine shaft is by guided tour. The colliery features both a standard gauge and narrow gauge railway - the former representing how coal was transported to its onward destination, and the latter typically used by Edwardian collieries for internal purposes. The standard gauge railway is laid out to serve the deep mine - wagons being loaded by dropping coal from the Hempstead - and runs out of the yard to sidings laid out along the northern edge of the Pit Village.
On the standard gauge railway, there are two engine sheds in the colliery yard, the smaller brick, wood, and metal structure being an operational building, the larger brick-built structure being presented as Beamish Engine Works, a reconstruction of an engine shed formerly at Beamish 2nd Pit. Used for locomotive and stock storage, it is a long, single track shed featuring a servicing pit for part of its length, visitors can walk along the full length in a segregated corridor. A third engine shed has been constructed at the southern end of the yard (i.e. the other side of the Hempstead to the other two sheds), also in brick (lower half) and corrugated iron, and is used for both narrow and standard gauge vehicles (on one road), although it is not connected to either system - instead of being fed by low-loaders and used for long term storage only.
The narrow-gauge railway is serviced by a corrugate iron engine shed and is being expanded to eventually encompass several sidings.
There are a number of industrial steam locomotives (including rare examples by Stephen Lewin, from Seaham, and Black, Hawthorn & Co), and many chaldron wagons (the region’s traditional type of colliery railway rolling stock, and which became a symbol of Beamish Museum). The locomotive Coffee Pot No 1 is often in steam during the summer. Alongside the colliery is the pit village, representing life in the mining communities that grew alongside coal production sites in the North East, many having come into existence solely because of the industry, such as Seaham Harbour, West Hartlepool, Esh Winning, and Bedlington.Miner's Cottages
The row of six miner's cottages in Francis Street represents the tied housing provided by colliery owners to mine workers. Relocated to the museum in 1976, they were originally built in the 1860s in Hetton-le-Hole by Hetton Coal Company. They feature the common layout of a single-story with a kitchen to the rear, the main room the house, and parlor to the front, rarely used (although it was common for both rooms to be used for sleeping, with disguised folding dess beds common), and with children sleeping in attic spaces upstairs. In front are long gardens, used for food production, with associated sheds. An outdoor toilet and coal bunker were in the rear yards, and beyond the cobbled back lane to their rear are assorted sheds used for cultivation, repairs, and hobbies. Chalkboard slates attached to the rear wall were used by the occupier to tell the mine's knocker up when they wished to be woken for their next shift.
No.2 is presented as a Methodist family's home, featuring good quality Pitman's mahogany furniture; No.3 is presented as occupied by a second-generation well off Irish Catholic immigrant family featuring many items of value (so they could be readily sold off in times of need) and an early 1990s range; No.3 is presented as more impoverished than the others with just a simple convector style Newcastle oven, being inhabited by a miner's widow allowed to remain as her son is also a miner, and supplementing her income doing laundry and making/mending for other families. All the cottages feature examples of the folk art objects typical of mining communities. Also included in the row is an office for the miner's paymaster. In the rear alleyway of the cottages is a communal bread oven, which was commonplace until miner's cottages gradually obtained their own kitchen ranges. They were used to bake traditional breeds such as the Stottie, as well as sweet items, such as tea cakes. With no extant examples, the museum's oven had to be created from photographs and oral history.School[edit]
The school opened in 1992 and represents the typical board school. in the educational system of the era.
C2C Bike Ride: First level section after Ruins (Rookhope Incline)
Video 09 of my Cumbrian Way/C2C bicycle ride Rookhope to Hett Hills segment.