In a message dated 10/12/2009 11:21:15 GMT Standard Time, robin@scottishwool.com writes: Our GARDNER LANNEN families moved again this time to Robert Place for birth of Patrick Lannen in 1912. Can anyone pinpoint where this is? Given the previous addresses I'd expect it to be in the Barn Close area. Sorry, Robin, but I can't find it on any of my maps, nor on any of those printed with Frank Manders' "History of Gateshead". All I can say is that it was not in the Barn Close area. I at first thought it might be one of the narrow alleys leading off either side of the high Street - between West Street and East Steet, say, but it did not seem to be one of them. There was something of a tendency to name the rows of houses along West Street as "Something Place", so possibly it was one of them. If only you had asked this question yesterday! I was at the NDFHS S Tyneside Branch meeting at the Stag's Head, South Shields, last night (Wednesday) where one of the speakers was Anthea Lang, former local studies librarian for Gateshead Library, who now runs the Heritage Centre in the former St Mary's parish church for them. I'm sure she would have been able to tell you or I straight away where it was! Geoff Nicholson