I am not getting messages from the list at the minute but started reading a book last night that I thought might help although it is earlier than the lister wanted. My copy is from Newcastle central. Please on't order it straight away as it's a longun. It's calle Nature's Engraver by Jenny Urglow and about the life of Thomas Bewick. Life at Cherryburn is vivily escribe and of course becauue it was the Bewick family there are pictures even of a man weeing against a tree. Her writing style is very warm and easy to follow and she has Bewick's talent to evoke a scene. isbn 978 0 571 22375 6 My husband's family may have follwed a typical local movement that people may wish to bear in mind. When the farmrs of Allndale were unable to combine lead smelting with farming imes became very har in th late 1800s. Thaat is when so many emigrated to Canada. Our family tried Brampton unsuccesfully and killed all the rabbits on their land. Hearing of their plight a old neighbour said there was money to be made from cowmen on Tyneside as Armstrong wanted all his workers to drink 2 pints of milk a ay to line their stomachs against lead poisoning. I on't kow if Lord Armstrong paid or not. Anyway the great grandad moved to Scotswood as a herdsman and then his old neighbour Blackett Ord from Whitfield set him and the family up at umpling Hall, West Denton, Deleval farms etc. I think it's interting how integrated Tyneside was from its rural hinterland compare with today,, Deb

Can anyone tell me where Carrick Street Gateshead was/is? We have LANNEN and WALKER family there around 1929 Robin