In a message dated 04/02/2008 15:18:09 GMT Standard Time, [email protected] writes: Can SKS tell me where an area known as Numbers was in the late 18th century please? Is it still there? ____________________________________________________________ Hi Karen, I think you mean Numbers Garth. Numbers Garth was between 158 and 159 High Street West, opposite Sans Street. I can send you a location map if you want. A garth was a courtyard surrounded by a cloister, and was also an archaic word for a yard or garden, from the old Norse garthr, and related to the Old English geard (Yard). There were also Assembly Garth, and Wethereld Garth. There were then the pre-war blocks of flats Wear Garth and Burleigh Garth, now demolished. Numbers Garth is long demolished. Numbers Garth was a rundown area in the nineteenth century, as was a lot of the previous prosperous property in the east end of Sunderland/Bishopwearmouth. In the Eighteenth century it would have been the homes of artisans and well-to-do folk. Stan