A view of number 133 (and Low Church Wynd) High Street, with a glimpse of the viaduct in the distance, Yarm c1979.
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A view of number 133 (and Low Church Wynd) High Street, with a glimpse of the viaduct in the distance, Yarm c1979.
This shop used to be a harware shop belonging to Robinson brothers for many years before it was sold on. The sign down the wynd pronounced (weend) was the langbraugh press and printers also was a garage next to it and was used by normid plant hire who also owned winpenny house in the high street
The ‘twin’ shop-unit property, seen under alteration, eventually became a single unit that is currently occupied by electrical retailers Bang & Olufsen. In the middle-distance, the shop in the Wynd itself with a hanging-sign, has now reverted to being a private-residence.
In the far-distance, almost directly under the railway-viaduct, a development of modern (mid 70’s) townhouses can be seen. Nearly all of these properties would certainly own a tumble-drier.
For during another ‘historic-time'(mid 1850’s), when the wishes of the local population were not regarded as being too important by ‘big business'( i.e. Railway companies), the viaduct became the scourge of every Yarm housewife that lived under it’s path. Even today, an outside washing-line hung with ‘whites’, will be routinely marked by soot, coal-dust and other detritus, that falls directly from the trains and railway-wagons passing overhead, at all times of the day and night.