Dave, Hanging/Hanning Side was close ( from 1881 census listings) to the Rising Sun Farm. It's postcode is NE2 89JL ( Co-ordinates NZ3068 or NZ302686) Durham County Council web site has a GIS mapping feature ( sorry unable to get link to work) which allows map search by postcode. Then when centred on modern day spot you can chose historical map versions back to 1850s. The pits nearby are to west and south. Quarry to east. Have a go yourself at navigating around the area. Michael
Dixymick@aol.com wrote: > Durham County Council web site has a GIS mapping feature ( sorry unable to > get link to work) which allows map search by postcode. Then when centred > on modern day spot you can chose historical map versions back to 1850s. > The pits nearby are to west and south. Quarry to east. Have a go yourself at > navigating around the area. Try http://tinyurl.com/durhamgis Brian -- Brian Pears (Gateshead, UK) http://www.bpears.org.uk/ Joint List Admin NORTHUMBRIA Genealogy Mailing List GENUKI Northumberland Maintainer
Good Morning Brian. I am interested in the site you have given the address for. Does it cover South Shields? I am interested in " 164 Stevenson Street South Shields ; where my grand father live from about 1891 till 1924 {his death] But I do not know what the post code is as I understand that the street was demolished many years ago. This I hope will help me to find the coal mine that he worked at during this time.. More background to his life Any help that anyone can give would be appreciated. I was very interested in the "Pubis" that you all visited in he days of long ago. I never knew the area except for about short time [aug - sept 1939] when I was visiting my grandmother in south shields Wishing you all the seasons greetings and may all your brick wall come down during the next year Regards Peter Collins Cheltenham England ----- Original Message ----- From: "Brian Pears" <bp@bpears.org.uk> To: <northumbria@rootsweb.com> Sent: Tuesday, December 15, 2009 2:28 AM Subject: Re: [NMB] Place Name Hanning(or Hanging) Side, Longbenton > Dixymick@aol.com wrote: >> Durham County Council web site has a GIS mapping feature ( sorry >> unable to >> get link to work) which allows map search by postcode. Then when >> centred >> on modern day spot you can chose historical map versions back to >> 1850s. >> The pits nearby are to west and south. Quarry to east. Have a go >> yourself at >> navigating around the area. > > Try > > http://tinyurl.com/durhamgis >
On 15/12/09 02:28, "Brian Pears" <bp@bpears.org.uk> wrote: > Dixymick@aol.com wrote: >> Durham County Council web site has a GIS mapping feature ( sorry unable to >> get link to work) which allows map search by postcode. Then when centred >> on modern day spot you can chose historical map versions back to 1850s. >> The pits nearby are to west and south. Quarry to east. Have a go yourself >> at >> navigating around the area. > > Try > > http://tinyurl.com/durhamgis Brian that takes me to the Durham Miner site Try http://gis.durham.gov.uk/website/interMAP/viewer.htm This not only covers Co Durham but a much wider area including Northumberland Robin
Just interest, but does anyone know how the name of the street One Ball Lonnen originated? I notice that there is also a Two Ball Lonnen. Lancelot Middlesbrough.
Michael & Brian, Many thanks for the link, that is a more user friendly way to get at those old maps, which I wasn't aware of (although I think the clarity is slightly better on some of the versions on the www.british-history.ac.uk site). But Michael, wondering where you get the postcode from for Hanging Side? Is this on the basis of its sequence on the 1881 listing? As although it does come between Rising Sun Farm & Scaffold Hill on the 1881 listing, this doesn't always appear to be the case, and I still cannot see it on any of the maps available from the Durham Council site? The reason I am trying to identify it more explicitly, is that I am in the process of documenting some of the locations in this area of the parish on TNA's 'Your Archives' site (see http://yourarchives.nationalarchives.gov.uk/index.php?title=Place:Longbenton _Parish%2C_Northumberland ) , a project which incidentally dates back to a query regarding the location of Richard Pit on this group many years ago, and so far Hanging Side is the only one which I have not been able to locate. Dave -----Original Message----- From: northumbria-bounces@rootsweb.com [mailto:northumbria-bounces@rootsweb.com] On Behalf Of Dixymick@aol.com Sent: 15 December 2009 01:22 To: northumbria@rootsweb.com Subject: Re: [NMB] Place Name Hanning(or Hanging) Side, Longbenton Dave, Hanging/Hanning Side was close ( from 1881 census listings) to the Rising Sun Farm. It's postcode is NE2 89JL ( Co-ordinates NZ3068 or NZ302686) Durham County Council web site has a GIS mapping feature ( sorry unable to get link to work) which allows map search by postcode. Then when centred on modern day spot you can chose historical map versions back to 1850s. The pits nearby are to west and south. Quarry to east. Have a go yourself at navigating around the area. Michael The NORTHUMBRIA FAQ page is located at http://www.bpears.org.uk/NorthumbriaFAQ/ ------------------------------- To unsubscribe from the list, please send an email to NORTHUMBRIA-request@rootsweb.com with the word 'unsubscribe' without the quotes in the subject and the body of the message