' Netty ', communal tap and coalhouse in yard behind Hunter's Buildings c 1930. This toilet might not look too inviting but it was a great improvement on the earlier, dry, ash-pit netties.
From right, Drill Hall 1888,headquarters of 2nd Durham (Seaham) Volunteer Artillery Brigade, first catholic church (school to rear )1869*, police station 1861, Tempest Place, Wesleyan Chapel **, Londonderry Institute ( not visible ) and finally Rutland House.
* Catholic community had formerly worshipped in the Lord Seaham Hotel.
** The chapel was originally built by the Independent Methodists c 1860 and taken over by the Wesleyans in 1881
Castlereagh Rd, rear of Drill Hall in foreground (1888), Co-op behind, looking east to North Railway St in the distance c 1905.
The drill Hall became Barran's Clothing Factory in 1958 it was mostly destroyed by fire in 1986.
