Location: Leadgate

Allendale Town - 1905

Crowd gather to watch the laying of the foundation stone of the Temperance Hall. The hall subsequently opened in 1908 and later became Allendale Village Hall.

Allendale Town - 12 June 1905

Laying of the foundation stone at Allendale’s Temperance Hall on Whit Monday, 1905.  The building was completed in 1908 and later became the village hall.

Allendale Town - Circa 1914

May Day Celebrations, photograph outside village hall. Teacher on the back right was Annie Clarissa Stephenson Boy on right front was an Edgar Girl second right was a Shortridge (related to Geoff Charlton)

Allendale Town - Circa 1920

Leadgate, Allendale looking towards ‘Glenholme’ house on the hillside.. The recreation ground – built on open ground known as ‘Crooklands’ is now to the left of this print.

Allendale Town - Circa 1979

Nicholas Liddell (left, 1986-1985) farmed at Catton, and Jack Stephenson (r) was heavily involved in village life.  Apart from being a roadman, he taught dancing and played every week at dances every week at the Temperance Hall.

Allendale Town - Circa 1920

Leadgate, Allendale. Note the old shop to the right of the photograph. Up on the hill is Glenholme. The people in the photograph are Billy Bland and ? Lowes

Allendale Town - February 1947

The bad snow of the 1947 winter when the village was cut off for around 8 weeks. The top of the wall bordering the Recreation Ground made a useful footpath ! That winter the goods railway agreed to take passengers, when it was running, so they could get to work.

Allendale Town - February 1947

Clearing a way into the village along Leadgate during the bad snows of 1947. The caterpillar tractor was one of Vickers’ (Scotswood Road, Newcastle) – tractor production here was later abandoned.

Allendale Town - Circa 1950

‘The Rec’ – Allendale Recreation Ground showing the two – grass then asphalt – tennis courts that existed into the late 1980s before being put to lawn.

Allendale Town - 1965

Looking along Leadgate towards Allendale village centre. The entrance to Allendale Middle School (subsequently Allendale Primary School) is on the left.

Allendale Town - June 1988

Row of buildings on Leadgate, Allendale Town. The school kitchen and middle house were converted to one dwelling (a three bedroomed house), and the old joiner/undertaker’s workshop (most recently the workshop of Joe Bell (1908-1982) and previously the smithy of his uncle Abe Bell (1886-1945) awaits conversion.

Allendale Town - February 1947

A view during the severe winter of 1947 – Leadgate, looking west towards Allendale.  The isolated building on the left was a wooden structure – a shop.  Beyond is the old smithy where, by this time,  Joe Bell (1908-82) made coffins for his undertaking workshop.

Allendale Town - 1984

The building on the extreme left had most recently been used by Allendale First school as their school kitchen – and children walked from the First School to take their dinners in a dining hall, across the road in the Recreation Ground. The middle house was a one up, one down – a home for … read more