Robin and Margaret: Perhaps you already know that the Brunswick Hotel was at the extreme bottom (east side) of what is now Old Durham Road. It was at the point where the later route south diverged from that (originally Roman) road and took what, before the by-pass was built in the 1970s, was the A1. That is Durham Road, originally a turnpike road, which went through Low Fell and so kept to the bottom of the hill which is Gateshead Fell, instead of going over it, as Old Durham Road did. As I remember it, just before it was demolished in the late 1960s, the Brunswick was a stone-built, whitewashed pub, with back painted quoins and stood at the end of a small terrace which I think was Brunswick Terrace. According to my old (1991) A-Z, Cemetery Road left Old Durham Road at about the same place as the Brunswick Hotel and ran eastwards, along the north side of the huge Gateshead East Cemetery. I'm not sure whether Cemetery Road still exists, though I suspect not. I don't know anything about Richard Robson or Mr Little, but I suspect they were farmers who held their farms on lease, rather than actual land-owners. You may find them in a Northumberland Trades Directory of the period. There were Gateshead newspapers as well as several other Newcastle ones. Most are held in Gateshead Public Library, Local Studies Section. A Gateshead-based paper, such as the Gateshead Observer, might have a fuller story about the event. Geoff Nicholson -----Original Message----- From: Shetland Sheep via <northumbria@rootsweb.com> To: northumbria <northumbria@rootsweb.com> Sent: Tue, 22 Jul 2014 12:51 Subject: [NMB] Horse Show at Gateshead June 1884 James Hird held"His annual Horse Show amongst his workmen" in the Durham Road (!) Gateshead on Saturday 15 June 1884 as reported in The Newcastle Courant of Saturday June 22 1884. The report names the judges as 'Mr Richard Robson of Ovington Hall and Mr Little of Dilston, Corbridge' Prizes were won by Robert Robson, Peter McFadden, Patrick Malone, John Anderson and George Dobson. Is anyone interested in these men? We'd like to know more about these men ... eg occupations in census and place of birth This is the first time we've seen employees listed for James Hird who ran a contracting and carting business in Cemetery Road as well as The Brunswick Hotel. Robin and Margaret (nee Hird) Lanark Scotland .. Please quote the minimum necessary to put your reply on context. Please introduce yourself at the top of every post. 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

>-----Original Message----- >From: northumbria-bounces@rootsweb.com [mailto:northumbria-bounces@rootsweb.com] On Behalf Of Geoff Nicholson via >Sent: 23 July 2014 09:58 >To: shetlandsheep@scottishwool.com; northumbria@rootsweb.com >Subject: Re: [NMB] Horse Show at Gateshead June 1884 > > > According to my old (1991) A-Z, Cemetery Road left Old Durham Road at about the same place as the Brunswick Hotel and ran eastwards, along the north side of >the huge Gateshead East Cemetery. I'm not sure whether Cemetery Road still exists, though I suspect not. > > > Geoff Nicholson > Cemetery Road still appears to exist, though the buildings along it are modern: http://goo.gl/maps/VxLPW

On 23/07/2014 09:57, "Geoff Nicholson" <geoff.nicholson@aol.co.uk> wrote: > As I remember it, just before it was demolished in the late 1960s, the > Brunswick was a stone-built, whitewashed pub, with back painted quoins and > stood at the end of a small terrace which I think was Brunswick Terrace. Geoff Thanks for your interest. Yes that is the right pub and location. We pinpointed it many years ago when revisiting Gateshead using an 1895 Map to navigate... and found ourselves on a flyover. There is a photo in Gateshead Library of the pub in its final days showing it as you describe. In it¹s Victorian heyday it was a prosperous business and hosted many local meetings. We have a photo of James Hird and couple of his barmen standing in front of the pub in 1884 (dated by the election poster in a window) Cemetery road still exists .. it is the north side of the cemetery but the site of the Hird contractor¹s yard is now housing. Newspapers ... yes the collection at Gateshead Library is great ­ we spent many hours working through them (and at Colindale) .. now looking forward to the Gateshead titles appearing online - the originals we handled 25 years ago were fragile. Robin -- Robin and Margaret McEwen-King Lanark Scotland