Greenside

Thumbnail map of Ryton area showing Greenside

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Photograph of Greenside Village Centre


It is hard to imagine the photographs of Greenside (below) as the same community we know today

Photograph of Greenside Village Centre circa 1900 Photograph of Greenside Colliery

Greenside mushroomed at the turn of the Century from being scattered cottages along Woodside Lane and the Lead Road to being the largest colliery community in the district.
Even the name Greenside is of recent coinage; Woodside, Long row, Folly and Kyo being older and representing long established communities in their own right.

Photograph of Delhi Crescent, Woodside

Photograph of St John's Church, Greenside Photograph of Greenside Farm

Farming and coalmining (on a smaller scale) have been traditional occupations of most residents, but the main village bears the stamp of a coal community from the boom years around 1900.

Photograph of view from Jacky's Plantin' looking towards Crawcrook and Wylam

The Greenside district is hillier and more rural than those closer to the main Tyne valley and contains some of the more interesting and historical farms.


Thumbnail Ordnance Survey map of Greenside, early 1900's

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Planned links for the future:

Woodside

Coalburns

Low Greenside and the Folly

Housing

Churches

Inns and Cubs

Farming

Coalmining

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