New Street, High Green.
Newton Chambers acquired the land in1842 and build the 24 terraced houses with a special vent in the chimney, approximately between 1860 and 1880 to house their workforce. The properties were then acquired by the N.C.B. in the 1947 coal nationalisation scheme and offered to miners as they became vacant.
In this scene on New Street in the early 1900s the women and children, all neatly dressed, pose for the cameraman. Jean Huddlestone, who published her memoirs in 1995, remembered regular visits to a house in the street in the 1920s when she was a little girl. She remembered that the front windows were tidily curtained and, as shown here, the edges of the steps and the window sills were whitened. The front doors were seldom used except for funerals!
According to a former resident attending the Parish Family event in October 2024 - In the 1940s, families with surnames, Truman, Gentles, Burgin, and at no3 Reginald & Fred ? lived there.
In The 1960s some of the occupants were No 1, Belfitt, No 5, Bramwell, Lang, No 11, Cooper, Cockerill, Chesters, Mellor, Hinch, Childs, & Morley
No 2, Dransfield, Mathewman, Riddle, Whittington, No12, Hible, No 14, Marshall, Jenkinson, Cooke, Yeardley & Moore.
By 2010 None of the above were living in the Street.
Image Details
| Archiving Reference Number | A/091/a/G CHGA |
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| Type | Photograph |
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| Contributor/s | Original from Clara Housley |
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| Date Donated to the EDA | 1st October 2016 |
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