Photographs Of Newcastle: Earsdon

Earsdon is a historical village in the borough of North Tyneside in the county of Tyne and Wear, England. It sits on the border of Northumberland (to which it belonged in the past), and is approximately two miles from Whitley Bay.

Earsdon was an urban district from 1894 to 1935, consisting of the four parishes of Earsdon, Backworth, Holywell, and Murton. It was then split between Seaton Valley, Tynemouth, and Whitley and Monkseaton, with Seaton Valley taking the bulk of the population of both the district and Earsdon parish.

The graveyard of St Alban's Anglican church is home to a memorial to the 204 men and boys killed in the Hartley Colliery Disaster of 1862, at the nearby village of New Hartley. There is also a war memorial in the village.

A second church, Earsdon Methodist Chapel, is located within a former quarry.

The children's television series Supergran was filmed in part in the village and The Beehive Inn near Earsdon was used for the filming of the 1976 film The Likely Lads.

Text courtesy of Wikipedia.

7th June 2013

St Albans Church, Front Street.

Parish church. 1836-7 by John and Benjamin Green; 1889 chancel. Coursed squared sandstone with ashlar dressings, plinth and quoins. Welsh slate roof with stone gable copings. West tower, nave, chancel with north vestry and south porch. Early English style.

Gothic-panelled double south door in tower. Boarded porch door in arch. Interior - queen-post roof, columns support west gallery, arch to north organ chamber. Sixteenth century glass in east nave lancets, possibly by Galyon Hone for Hampton Court, presented in 1874 by Lord Hastings, restored by L.C. Evetts in 1958, armorials of Henry VII and Henry VIII.

Grade 2 Listed. Source: Sitelines.

St Albans Vicarage.

Circa 1836; by John and Benjamin Green. Coursed squared sandstone with ashlar dressings, quoins and plinth; Welsh slate roof with rendered chimneys. 2 storeys, 3 x 3 bays.

Central 6-panelled door, under ornamental fanlight, in stone doorcase of pilasters and keystoned arch. Chamfered surrounds, flat stone lintels and projecting stone sills to renewed sashes with glazing bars. Eaves gutter band. Hipped roof.

Grade 2 Listed. Source: Historic England.

Edward Eccles Church Hall.

The Hall, which belongs to St Alban's Church, is located at the west edge of Earsdon. Designed by Wilkinson and Crawley, it was built 1910-1911 and was a gift to Earsdon by Edward Eccles, J.P. The hall is Grade II listed on the National Heritage List for England.

Source: Co-Curate.

Hartley Colliery Disaster Memorial.

Memorial to the memory of 204 miners who lost their lives on 16 January 1862 in the New Hartley Pit at Seaton Delaval when the 42 ton cast-iron pumping engine beam fell down, striking, as it fell, the ascending cage containing 8 men. The miners working in the galleries below were trapped underground as the explosion blocked the shaft. By the time the shaft had been cleared it was too late. The miners had suffocated. 60,000 people watched the funeral procession.

An inquest was held on 3 February at a local chapel. Coroner Stephen Reed was assisted by Kenyon Blackwell, ex-industrialist Inspector. The disaster was instrumental in the passing of legislation requiring mines to have at least two means of escape. The Coroner's inquest also recommended that colliery engine beams should be made of "malleable [wrought] iron instead of cast metal".

The disaster happened at Hester Pit of Hartley Colliery, the site of which is marked in the village of New Hartley in Northumberland (NZ 301 771). The memorial is a tall corniced pedestal of sandstone ashlar with egg-and-dart cornice and cord moulding, supporting a tall obelisk. Inscription on east side: ERECTED TO THE MEMORY OF THE 204 MINERS WHO LOST THEIR LIVES IN HARTLEY PIT, BY THE FATAL CATASTROPHE OF THE ENGINE BEAM BREAKING 16TH JANUARY, 1862. On the other sides are biblical quotes and the names of the dead. The youngest was William Davidson aged 11. Round-coped dwarf wall surrounds step to monument. Graves for the deceased were dug on land donated by the Duke of Northumberland next to Earsdon churchyard and became part of the extended cemetery.

Grade 2 Listed. Source: Sitelines.

Earsdon Cemetery.

Earsdon War Memorial, Front Street.

The war memorial in Earsdon is located on Front Street near the east entrance to the village beside the Red Lion Public House. It is dedicated to the local people who gave their lives in the First World War, and later also dedicated to the dead of World War 2. "This monument is erected to the glorious memory of the men who gave their lives in the Great War 1914-1918. At the going down of the sun and in the morning we will remember them." 1939-1945.

Grade 2 Listed. Source: Co-Curate.

Cannon Inn.

The Cannon Inn is a public house, located on Front Street, Earsdon. Several French prisoners were held in Earsdon village during the Napoleonic Wars (1803–1815) after a French ship, its crew, and at least one cannon were captured on the River Blyth. It is said that this was when The Spread Eagle in Earsdon changed it's name to the Cannon Inn.

Source: Co-Curate.

Church Way.

Former School, Church Way.

Bank Top, Front Street.

Manor House, Front Street.

House, now two separate dwellings. Mid eighteenth century, twentieth century rear stair tower. Sandstone ashlar, rubble returns and rear. Welsh slate roof with stone gable copings. Three ashlar-corniced brick chimneys. Three storeys. Central renewed door in flat Tuscan doorcase. Flat stone lintels and projecting stone sills to [mostly renewed] sash windows. Interior has no original features.

Grade 2 Listed. Source: Sitelines.