In a message dated 12/05/2004 06:27:30 GMT Daylight Time, twohills@bigpond.com writes: Hello All, Can some one please tell me if Clavering Street, is any where close by Park Lane? I am trying to tie my Grandfather Brown to these two addresses, I have just received his birth certificate which states address at time of birth as 14 Clavering Street. Gateshead I also have a railway pension application with almost the same details except for the place of birth he states as being Park Lane. Gateshead. Thanks for any help Pat . Pat: . Clavering Steet was a residential street of red-brick terrace houses immediately north of Park Lane in Gateshead. It is now long-demolished and hte site mainly occupied by flats of six or seven stories. Park Lane, on the other hand, still survives but is now, I suppose, a shopping street. I say "I suppose" because when the Felling by-pass was constructed in the late 1950s, the 50 yards or so that was left of that part of Park Lane became the main road linking it to Gateshead High Street, and so was widened drastically (causing it to take in a lot of what was originally Clavering Street) and lined with poor-quality 1950s commercial buildings. It is now effectively an appendage of High Street. I believe that the beginning of the Felling by-pass - about naother 50 yards leading to a railway fly-over - is also officialy Park Lane, but that has no buildings on it at all. There is one factory but I doubt whether its address is Park Lane as it has entrances elsewhere. . The only caution I would give as to that explanation is that a few miles to the west, in Dunston, there was a small Square called Clavering Square. It was almost obliterated by the construction of the A1 Gateshead Western by-pass in the 1970s but next to it, and given a new lease of life by that new road, as it is the main link from Dunston to one of the new junctions, is Park Terrace. I realise you asked about a Street and a Lane and these are a Square and a Terrace, but the Clavering bit and the Park bit are the same and they are adjacent in both cases! . Geoiff Nicholson . 57 Manor Park, Concord, WASHINGTON, Tyne & Wear NE37 2BU Ask for details of NBL/DUR family history research in depth by THE local expert, working for YOU.