Bishopwearmouth Address

[David Sherriff]

Can anyone complete this address, please. 27 ????bers Garth, Bishopwearmouth. I am not sure if the jpeg attachment has uploaded as I am getting an error message.

[Mapstone]

It is Numbers Garth

[Mapstone]

Numbers Garth ran from 158 High Street West to Charles Street

[David Sherriff]

Thanks for the information. What sort of area was this? Was it where the poor people lived?

[Jo Simpsons]

This link should show you a photo of High Street West, if its any help.

Jo :)
http://images.google.co.uk/imgres?imgurl=http://www.sunderland.gov.uk/public/editable/themes/lifelong-learning/images/Sunderland%2520St,%2520H.jpg&imgrefurl=http://www.sunderland.gov.uk/public/editable/themes/lifelong-learning/local-studies-gallery.asp&h=794&w=1178&sz=68&tbnid=Mthu26ZKJaMJ:&tbnh=101&tbnw=150&hl=en&start=8&prev=/images%3Fq%3Dsunderland%26hl%3Den%26lr%3D

[Mapstone]

Numbers Garth was one of many small streets or Courts packed into a
small area off the lower part of the High Street West.
The houses would have been highly overcrowded and the buildings nothing more than slums.
In the 1881 Census there were 23 inhabited houses with 311 people. Oner house had 30 occupants.
Those places were mostly swept away in slum clearance schemes in the early 20th century.
Numbers Garth was parallel to and between Sunderland Street and Russell
Street north of High Street West. Sunderland Street and Russell Street are still there on the modern map which you can access on Multimap or Streetmap, the A1018 runs now through the area.
To aviod any confusion High Street West did not finish at Bridge Street, as generally assumed but finished at Russell Street, where High Street East started. The part of High Street West shown on the site
http://images.google.co.uk/imgres?i...hl%3Den%26lr%3D (http://images.google.co.uk/imgres?imgurl=http://www.sunderland.gov.uk/public/editable/themes/lifelong-learning/images/Sunderland%2520St,%2520H.jpg&imgrefurl=http://www.sunderland.gov.uk/public/editable/themes/lifelong-learning/local-studies-gallery.asp&h=794&w=1178&sz=68&tbnid=Mthu26ZKJaMJ:&tbnh=101&tbnw=150&hl=en&start=8&prev=/images%3Fq%3Dsunderland%26hl%3Den%26lr%3D) is the section to the west of Bridge Street.

[David Sherriff]

Thank you for all that information, Stan. It is most helpful in building up the bigger picture.