There are only 4 x Prince Consort Roads in the whole of the country (mebee in the whole of the UK?)
One in Jarrow (I lived there one time)
One in Hebburn
One in Gateshead
One in Kensington London
Strange innit South Tyneside naming roads after Prince Albert.
And the rest of the country only naming one?
Which reminds me when I was digging the borders of my garden in our newly built rented property.
I dug up loads of coal and an 1858 shilling (I gave it to my youngest gandaughter) It has Prince Albert on once side and Victoria on the other.
It was badly marked and battered and I think it's value is about £40.00 now.
At the time I thought imagine some poor wife losing that it would be about a weeks wages then.
Then thinking about I know believe it was put into the foundations of a building being built then.
The place I am now in (no I am not giving my address away) might have been 1st built on 1958.
I definitely know the second build of a school drive and Tennis Court was built in 1960 (the school that was there had been built in the 1850s but 200 yards from where I dug up the coin)
Nowt left of the school or its surroundings now as it was demolished and dug up in 2015 and its rubble crushed and sold as hardcore)
And yes someone might say the coin could of been in the school foundations and when the school was demolished the debris scattered 200 yards and when the teeth on the digger scooped up the debris the coin fell through the teeth like the fingers on your hand and the caterpillar tracks embedded it into the undersoil...
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