This view along Newbottle Street from Houghton Broadway dates from about 1930. Sunderland District Omnibus number 35 is about to pass the chaps having a chinwag outside the original White Lion Hotel. It's obviously a Saturday and the Market Hall will be busy and so will the fourteen billiard tables upstairs.
Photograph and caption from Malcolm Fraser
The Almshouses photographed here in the 1960s are just right of the Kepier Hall (the old Grammar School) and are still standing exactly the same today. Photograph and caption from Susannah Scotter (nee Watson)
"Pit School", Susannah Callum (Susie) b 1897 is on the second row from the top and second person from the left.
"Lambton" was one of four houses within the school.
"St Mark's Mission" which was situated at Grasswell, between Houghton and Newbottle - near the "Pit School" and on the other side of the road to Houghton Colliery and Pit Row (colliery houses).
Photograph and caption from Susannah Scotter (nee Watson)
