Woolley - 1912

Woolley Avenue, approaching Woolley Park farm – beyond Allendale cemetery.

Woolley - 1902

‘Daniel’s Peth’ actually refers to the the steep bank up to the cemetery from Bridge End.  Llewellyn Fairlamb (b.1876) told of icy winters where the horse-drawn hearse was unable to draw coffins up Daniel’s Peth. This photograph is of further up that same road, between Wooley Park and Woolley. Postcard – with spelling error! – written … read more

Allendale (East Allen) - June 1981

A view of the ‘old’ flue chimney on the fell above Allendale, giving a good sense of its state prior to a lightning strike that occurred in the summer of 1990. Built to carry fumes from lead smelting operations at Allen Mill up onto the fell-top, it is older than the second chimney that was … read more

Cumwhinton - December 1904

The Hexham wolf (also called the Allendale wolf or the Wolf of Allendale) was a grey wolf that escaped from a private zoo (allegedly in Shotley Bridge) and killed livestock in Hexhamshire and Allendale during the last months of 1904.  It was found dead on the railway line near Cumwhinton, near Carlisle in late December … read more