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| Sandwell Gate & Sandwell Chare |
It checking other details about Hartlepool I came across this photograph taken from the other direction.
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| Sandwell Chare looking towards Sandwell Gate. |
This photo comes from the Museum of Hartlepool's Flickr photostream. It is from The Pattinson Collection (Hartlepool Museum), a group of images taken by the Reverend James Whitehead Pattinson during the latter years of the 19th Century, in and around the Hartlepool and Bishop Auckland areas.
8 comments:
I absolutely adore pictures like this Bob. History in motion, wow! Thanks for sharing this joy with me today.
nice..a travel in time..
I wonder what the lads in the street were saying to those up on the bridge!
Hi Bob .. fascinating photos .. and Chare means narrow or winding street .. in Wikipedia there's an interesting article on them ..
Love these .. thanks - Hilary
Hilary, I've just spent Sunday morning looking at other Chares and spinning off to investigate wynds as well. Butts Wynd in St Andrews was one that I knew well, There is also a number of wynds in Yarm - I shall have to get my camera out.
Hi Bob .. I had a quick look around - because I'd never heard the word before .. looking at Hartlepool and your two photos .. the second one looks like it's going into space .. and the map shows not much happening - so the land must be pretty marshy (but they'd have drained it) .. or something that can't be built on easily .. - there's a quay and ferry marked in different places - but it's not water either ..
Wynd .. I've never heard of them either .. and I've been to St Andrews but years ago ..
I wrote a post on Shambles - and now I see I mentioned 'chares' in there!! Not surprisingly I'd forgotten! .. the post is here - if you'd like to have a look .. but I don't mention wynds!
http://positiveletters.blogspot.com/2010/05/shambles-pawn-brokers-hay-market.html
England is so interesting with all its intertwining of language/names ..
Enjoy the rest of Sunday - it's positively balmy down here .. Hilary
Nice gate, interesting structure! I'm glad it still exists.
looks great either way!!
:)~
HUGZ
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