Found the answer to my question Robert Place appears to be in the area of Sarah Street and Dorothy Street. Address search on the 1911 Census comes up with it listed and going to the ED description pin points the location. RG14PN30419 RG78PN1748A RD557 SD2 ED9 SN1 This ED is the group of streets between Redheugh Bridge Road, Askew Road and 'the road from Askew Road to the Tyne'. The 1894 OS maps shows all the streets listed but not Robert Place. Robert Place may be a group of houses shown on what is named in1894 as Riverside Road. Looks like this home was a step up from most they had been in. Robin

One street missing from the various census but shown on the Godfrey maps is Riversdale Road. This is Robert Place and is confirmed in at least 1891 census by a large end terrace property listed as Robert Place/Sarah Street. As a kid at my grandparents in that area in early 50s the street was simply "the Banks" to youngsters playing around there but it had not seen a cobble or tarmac before the area was demolished around 1963/4. In parts you had a drop of several feet to the street from the pavement and from Askew Road to the railway bridge there was a deepening gouge making two banks up to the pavement on one side and the railway yards on the other. There is a Robert Street above St Cuthbert's Road nearby which, I imagine, might explain why only one version seems to have reached the maps but not why it persisted in the census. Alan Middlemass Bearpark, Durham, UK robin@scottishwool.com wrote: > Found the answer to my question > Robert Place appears to be in the area of Sarah Street and Dorothy Street. > > Address search on the 1911 Census comes up with it listed and going to the > ED description pin points the location. RG14PN30419 RG78PN1748A RD557 SD2 > ED9 SN1 > > This ED is the group of streets between Redheugh Bridge Road, Askew Road and > 'the road from Askew Road to the Tyne'. The 1894 OS maps shows all the > streets listed but not Robert Place. > > Robert Place may be a group of houses shown on what is named in1894 as > Riverside Road. > > > Looks like this home was a step up from most they had been in. > > > Robin > > > > > > 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 >