Church Row in Billingham. This photograph is also part of the Billingham Tour. 
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A Pictorial History of Stockton-on-Tees
Church Row in Billingham. This photograph is also part of the Billingham Tour.
I was a pupil in the C of E school on Billingham Green and one of my teachers, Miss D F Margets, lived in a cottage on Church Row. I still have one of three dictionaries that she gave to me and to the two others in the school who passed the eleven-plus examination that year. The other two successful pupils were Myra Oughton and Richard Rushworth.
The Cottage Row in Church Road Billingham is one of the high-lights of the “BILLINGHAM WALK; ” A small terrace of 1640″s brick cottages – St Agnes Almshouses – ” residence of “6 poor widows of Billingham. from the mid 1600s. Note the original set and size of the ground floor windows and the brick upper floor support of “straight-combing” ” Now private dwelling”s
Not much has changed on this photograph except has stated the buildings are no loger covered in ivy. The cottages are lovely and it almost gives Billingham a “village” feeling. Wonderful!
The ivy covered buildings date from the late 1600C as part of the St Agnes Almshouse for “six poor widows of the Village”. The original small windows, now bricked up, and the brick upper support “staight combing” of the 17thC are still visible on the wall. St Agnes, the Patron Saint of the poor and needy. The Vicarage Carriage house far left has a much later 1700s “dog-tooth” combing at its eaves
This photograph to me looks like Church street in Billingham and the image was taken from the Vestry door leading into the rear of St Cuthbert”s Church situated on Billingham Green