Talk:Lobley Hill

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Was Lobley Hill ever a village?

There is an Ordnance Survey map on the National Library of Scotland website https://maps.nls.uk/view/102341473 which shows Lobley Hill marked at a junction just to the east of the signal box on the Tanfield Branch of the North Eastern Railway which may refer either to the hill itself or a very small group of buildings. These may be the buildings still standing in 1950s before clearance to make way for the branch library. Further down the hill to the east at a crossroads that may be familiar as the Coach Road there are a group of buildings on the south east corner which may have been standing into 1960s or 1970s being a bookmakers and Bushells greengrocery. On the north west corner is a wooded area. The wood is marked Nor Wood and the builings opposite Norwood. The Team Colliery waggonway further to the east is also shown roughly where access to and from the eventual Coke Works could be seen. The survey is dated 1857 and the map published in 1862. The website allows use of the map under Creative Commons Atrribution but it is not reproduced here in case Wikipedia is restricted by unread exceptions included in the copyright statement.

Also Photographs in Gateshead Library have content showing the extent of house building by 1935. http://isee.gateshead.gov.uk/SearchResults/SearchResults?page=5&view=0#prettyPhoto/4/ is the photograph that shows the extent of the building of houses. There may be copyright obstacles still to including it in the article as previous attempts were challenged on that basis. Gateshead Libraries describes the photo content as follows

Team Valley and Lobley Hill

Reference No: GL011742

Photographs 1935

This is a view of the valley before the construction of Team Valley Trading Estate. The first houses built in the new suburb of Lobley Hill are shown in the background. The hay stooks were in the fields of Norwood Farm at the north end of the valley.