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PLAN OF THE CHAPEL PEGSWOOD CEMETERY. Photo NCC.
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Only CWGC Headstone Pegswood Cemetery. GEORGE WILLIAM BRYDON.
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Hogarth Family Gravestone, Bothal Churchyard. The Shape Of Which Reflects The Twin Family Businesses Of Quarrying And Building. |
Aeron Ditchburn, Norman Dixon And William (Billy) Edward Kidd. Billy Kidd Was To Play Football In The Pegswood Teams Before Moving On To Play Professionally For Chesterfield FC. He Was Born And Brought Up In Pegswood And Worked In The Coliiery. |
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A Soup Kitchen During The General Strike Of 1926. Former Pegswood Resident, The Late Councillor Jackie Davidson Was To State; 'The Only Time I ever Saw My Father Cry Was During The 1926 General Strike, When He Opened The Cupboard And Saw That There Was No Food'. |
Entrance Of An Old Drift, Bothal Woods. Water Is Still Flowing From The old Mine Workings And There Is Still Evidence Of Quarried Stone On The River Side. Vandals Have Removed Some Of The Brickwork. |
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The Old Nineteenth Century Gin Gang At The Rear Of East Farm. Now In A Derelict State, It Was Once Used As A Garage By Willie Smart. |
Site Of The Former Pegswood Quarry. In The Background, Right, Cookswell Estate. The Farmland Is to Be Put To A Much Better Use, Under The Castle Morpeth Borough Council Regeneration Scheme In The Guise Of A 'Much Needed Park'. |
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The Remains Of The Old Engine house, Former Pegswood Quarry. It Is Now Classed As A Listed Building. |
The Hand Carved Ogle Shield On The Rock Above The Lady Well, Adjacent To The Remains Of The Lady Chapel, Bothal Woods. |
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Mr William J. Dobson Of Pegswood. He Was One Of The Original Members Of The Ashington Group Of Painters (Pitmen Painters). When He Joined In October 1934, He Lived At 139 Bothal Terrace. In Later Years He lived At 273 Welbeck Terrace.
Photo William Dobson. |
A FAVOURITE TEACHER
1928 - 2008.
Audrey Stonier Wheatley nee Worswick was born in Houghton, County Durham in March 1928. She began her teaching career at Pegswood, Infant and Junior School, as a student teacher in August 1948. She married John Wheatley, an Ashington butcher, in the summer of 1952. She left Pegswood school in December 1954 and returned again in February 1965.
In later years she lived at Stakeford and died there in June of 2008.
Photo Wheatley Family.
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PEGSWOOD HOME GUARD OF WORLD WAR TWO. KNOWN FACES ARE: FAR LEFT WITH BUGLE, EDDY HOPE. REAR 2nd LEFT, HUME. FRONT 2nd RIGHT, HOGG. FOR MORE INFORMATION CLICK THE PIC.
Photo Unknown.
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All photographs, Robert Dixon unless otherwise stated.
PEGSWOOD SCHOOL FOOTBALL TEAM 1955 -56.
Rear L/R Roger Scrowther, Billy Browell, Eddy Hope, Jack Thompson (teacher)
Ernie Rose, Billy Fitzimmons, Michael Croyal.
Front L/R ??, Ossie Smith, Reggie Leonard, Billy Hume, John Williamson.
photo Leonard family via Monique Leonard.
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