Looking at that photo and seeing just how dark the buildings are, presumably soot etc.

I never lived in the quay just worked there, because it was the oldest part of Hebburn was it as bad as has been said.

By the say 50’s had the years of rain after the factories closed washed away the dirt?

Was there ever a project to clean up the housing?

A few weeks ago I was looking at a photo of My Grandfathers house in Glen Street with his family outside taken in 1913 and photos that I took some years ago while trying to identify which house the family lived in.

The brickwork didn’t seem dark, probably due to location location not downwind of a lot of other houses or industrial chimneys.

I wondered what it was like today so Googled Street view.

Big changes as all the houses having been rendered and by gum they do look smart.

Allan C.