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South Hetton, County Durham: People and Places of 1879

 Enjoy a glimpse of history about South Hetton in County Durham, England, UK.

The Post Office Directory of Durham and Northumberland

by Kelly and Company

Published in 1879



SOUTH HETTON is a large colliery village and ecclesiastical parish, in the Easington union, archdeaconry and diocese of Durham, county court district of Seaham Harbour, and Northern division of the county, 1½ miles north-east from Haswell Lane, 3 north-west from Easington, 9¼ east-by-north from Durham, 8 south from Sunderland, 13 north-west from Hartlepool, and 4 west from Seaham Harbour. The Sunderland and Hartlepool railway has a station here; the Junction station of the Durham and Sunderland railway, also a branch of the North Eastern railway, are 1½ miles distant. The church of the Holy Trinity is a Gothic stone building, erected in 1838 by subscription and grants from the Church Building Society: it consists of a chancel and nave and has a gallery and organ: the chancel has three handsome stained windows: there are 400 sittings, which are all free. The living is a vicarage, yearly value £300, with residence, in the gift of the Bishop of the diocese and held by the Rev. Robert Waters, A.K.C. There are chapels for Wesleyans and Primitive Methodists. The South Hetton Coal Company is one of the largest in the county of Durham; it gives employment to upwards of 1,100 persons: the quality of coal procured here is very good. The South Hetton Library and Reading room, established in 1848, contains upwards of 1,000 volumes, and is also well supplied with periodicals and the London and local newspapers. The principal landowners are Messrs. Baker and Gregson.

POST OFFICE.—James Emmerson, sub-postmaster. Letters arrive from Fence Houses at 7.50 a.m.; dispatched at 2.12 & 8.45. p.m. Easington Lane is the nearest money order office

INSURANCE AGENT.—Commercial Union, R. D. Cochrane, Colliery

SCHOOLS:—

Colliery, George Allison Turnbull, master; Miss Louisa Ann Fletcher, mistress

Infant, Miss Mary Jane Bailes, mistress

Railway Station, William England, station master

Foster Richard

Waters Rev. Robert, A.K.C. Vicarage

COMMERCIAL.

Anderson Elizth. (Mrs.), grocer & draper

Armstrong Henry, Butchers’ Arms

Bowden Robert, Hope & Anchor

Braithwaite William, grocer & draper

Broadbent Samuel Winn, surgeon

Caygill George, draper & shoe wareho

Chapman Ralph, shoe maker

Coxon George, beer retailer

Creswell Benjamin, watch maker

Dawson George, Screenmen’s Arms

Dobson William, farmer

Dunn John, engineer, Fallowfield

Elliott Magdalene (Mrs.), shopkeeper

Emmerson James, news agent, & post office

Errington Jane (Mrs.), farmer

Firby George, beer retailer

Forster William F. tailor & clothier

Fowell Edward William, farmer

Henderson Mary (Mrs.), boot & shoe dlr

Huntley George, grocer & greengrocer

Laidler Percival, grocer

Lawson Robson, Grey Horse

Library & Reading Room (David Lemon, secretary & treasurer)

Palmer Edward, Railway inn

Proud Joseph, cashier to South Hetton Coal Co.

Shanks Robert, grocer & draper

South Hetton Colliery Co. (Richard Forster, general manager)

Stell John, Dun Cow

Stubbs Edward, fruiterer

Stokoe Thomas, Station inn

Thompson William, butcher

Webster John, grocer, provision dealer, draper & boot & shoe warehouse

Wood Joseph, White Lion






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