Posted by Stan Howe on 7/13/2007, 7:31 pm, in reply to "Re: Tile Shead House" --Previous Message--
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Spot on Keith! There it was on Hummerbeck Lane, just a couple of hundred yards beyond Bridge House. It exists on the maps of the 1880's, but I never knew of it in my days there. For some reason I would never have thought of looking in that area; although now I come to think of it my parents knew the area well. My mother (Margaret clarke) attended the chapel at Brusselton as a girl,
: Stan
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: In 1871 census your family is in
: Staindrop Field Houses. 1 of 4
: families there. Next address is
: Bolton Garths (1 family), then Tile
: Shed House (I family) then Bridge
: House, next is Lutterington, then
: Wheatside, then Brackenberry Leazes
: then Royal Oak.
:
: There are some old maps on Durham
: Records Office web site. Tile Shed
: House is/was on Hummerbeck Lane
:
: Keith
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: --Previous Message--
: This is a repeat of an unsolved
: query
: I made on this page years ago. Where
: or what was 'Tile Shead House'
: (sic), West Auckland. According to
: the his birth certificate my
: grandfather Thomas Clarke was born
: there in 1876. In my recall he lived
: in Chapel Street and Darlington Road
: most of his life, but where was this
: building? There was a disused brick
: structure to the NW of the bridge
: over Oakley Beck that might have
: merited the title of 'SHED'
: (official documents are not immune
: to misspellings), but unless 'he lay
: in a manger' I doubt if that was it.
: Where else then?
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