The name 'Heaton' means high town, referring to the area being situated on hills above the Ouseburn, a tributary of the River Tyne.
In the 12th century Heaton became part of the Barony of Ellingham granted by Henry I to Nicholas de Grenville. In the 17th century the Heaton estate was purchased by Henry Babington who was knighted at Heaton Hall by James I on May 1, 1617.
By the 18th century, Heaton was a coal mining area with many of its collieries owned by Matthew White and Richard Ridley. The Heaton estate was broken up in 1835 when the area became officially incorporated into Newcastle upon Tyne. Much of the land in Heaton in 1840 was owned by Amourer Donkin, who on his death in 1857 bequeathed the land to his business partner, the industrialist Sir William Armstrong.
In 1879, the corporation acquired part of the Heaton Hall estate which was laid out as Heaton Park, and Sir William Armstrong donated Armstrong Park and Jesmond Dene to the city. The three parks run into each other to form a green chain through east Newcastle.
During the 19th century, the building of the railways saw the East Coast Main Line pass through Heaton, housing a major rail depot. Heaton also became the location of Sir Charles Parsons engineering works producing turbines.
Heaton was also home to Newcastle United under their previous name Newcastle East End F.C. between 1882 and 1892, East End played at the Heaton Junction Ground on Chillingham Road before moving to St James' Park.
Jack Common (1903-1968), the author of 'Kiddar's Luck' and 'The Ampersand', was born and brought up at 44 Third Avenue, Heaton, and attended Chillingham Road primary school; his novels give a vivid portrait of the area in the early 20th century. Common was later to model for the bust of Karl Marx which tops Marx's tomb in Highgate Cemetery, London. Third Avenue was also the birthplace of the Ringtons Tea business.
Nowadays, Heaton is a mixed working class and middle class area. In recent years it has become a popular residence for many students attending the city's two Universities, Newcastle University and Northumbria University.
Information harvested from Wikipedia - Heaton, Newcastle
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A few photos of the Stannington Grove/Avenue area that were requested by an ex-resident Muriel now living in Canada.
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A couple of photos of 80 Second Avenue for Les Hinchliffe who used to live there before moving to Wales.
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Not quite all of Heaton is covered here as it's so big and a lot of the streets look so similar but if there is a part of Heaton you want to see on here just drop me an email and I'll sort it out no problem as I spend a lot of time in Heaton. Heaton Road has page of it's own photos here Heaton Road.
OLD PHOTOS OF Heaton

View from the south.
Image from August 1974.
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View from the southwest.
Image from August 1974.
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View from the northeast.
Image from August 1974.
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View from the northeast.
Image from August 1974.
©SINE Project
More information:
North View School Heaton Photo from 1966
North View School Heaton Photo from 1951
11 comments:
Once again you've outdone yourself with your great pictures of Heaton. Much of it hasn't changed, thank goodness and and it is nice to be reminded of my childhood playground, even the "Peoples Theatre" at which I spent many hours when it was the Lyric Cinema!
Thanks. The hardest part of putting this post together was deciding which images to leave out as I have hundreds of photos of the area.
Another day in the mythical place they call Newcastle in which it never rains - daaaamn yooo! :-)
If only it never did rain then this site would be twice as busy :)
Did you see any of the races held around the Newcastle quayside on Saturday on the BBC. It never stopped raining!
hi could you plz put some pics up of newton road in high heaton? I used to live there now it's been 9 years since i wnt there. Also cud u plz put some pics up of ravenswood primary school? thankyou i would really appreciate it!
Here you go High Heaton. For some reason I did'nt put it in the sidebar.
This website has proved very useful in my geography A-level! thanks a lot! :)
We really have a beautiful city!
You are most welcome. :)
Does anybody remember the clark family that lived on warwick street and stratford grove west there was arthur, jim, frank, jim married liz gilchrist from shieldfield I think they had a sister called moyra
Hi there!
Great pics, very comprehensive!
Do you know where Townsville House was situated? There was a shipping publication company situated there.
Does anyone know if 17 Sixth Avenue still exists.I am trying to find where my grandmother lived there in Heaton around 1915 to 1921 approx.
Any photos or information would be greatly appreciated.I visited there last year from Australia tracing my grandparents but never knew my grandmother lived there.
Kind Regards
Merrin Keegan
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