These houses are situated in Port Clarence next to the Transporter Bridge. They were built for employees of the North Eastern Railway.
Photographs courtesy of Martin Dunnill.
Port Clarence Railway House
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I think these houses date from around 1883 when the new, brick built, Port Clarence Railway Station was opened.
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If built in 1883 they would be North Eastern Railway, which came into existence in 1854
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There was another row of railway houses between the properties featured in these photographs. These have subsequently been demolished. The 1891 census lists the railway workers living in these properties as follows –
Railway Cottages near Port Clarence Station
1 Railway Cottages – Ralph Adamson. Locomotive Engine Driver NER. age 42. Born Shincliffe, Durham.
2 Railway Cottages – James Elliot. Locomotive Engine Driver NER. 41. Ripon, Yorkshire
3 Railway Cottages – Frederick G Otton. Railway Station Master. 48. Hoxton, London ( also William G Otton. Railway Booking Clerk. 16. West Hartlepool.)
4 Railway cottages – John Dent. North Eastern Railway Porter. ( also Earnest Liddle. Locomotive Stoker. 30. Thornley, Durham ).
5 Railway Cottages – Robert Scaife. Railway Porter. 45. Kirby hills, Yorkshire.
6 Railway cottages – George Watson. Borer for Coals. Old Skelton, Yorkshire. ( also John Booth. Railway Passenger Guard. 59. Pontefract, Yorkshire and Thomas Kitching. Railway porter. 28. Beverley, Yorkshire )
7 Railway Cottages – Edward Collins. Railway Signalman. 41. Hornsby, Yorkshire. ( also Thomas Atkinson. Wagon Inspector. 24. Sunderland ; Anthony Severs. Wagon Greaser. 22. Brunton-On-Swale, Durham )
Railway Cottages at Port Clarence
1 Railway Cottages – George Appleton. Railway Goods Agent. 32. Billingham.
2 Railway cottages – Robert Appleton. Railway Mineral Shunter. 37. Billingham.
3 Railway Cottages – John Blencoe, Railway Signalman. 65. Biscester, Oxfordshire
4 Railway Cottages – Robert Holmes. Railway Platelayer. 45. Hlmsley, Yorkshire
I’m not sure how these properties relate to the ones in the photographs. They are all located near the Station Hotel and Anderston’s Foundry. The station Hotel is still in existence and is around the corner of the houses in the lower photograph.
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Those cottages were right at the end of the station siding! (I’ve seen them labelled “Station Cottages” on a map), they were still there in in 1950 as they can be seen on these images:
https://www.britainfromabove.org.uk/en/image/EAW032484
https://www.britainfromabove.org.uk/en/image/EAW024127
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After referring to maps of the period I believe the houses referred to in the 1891 census as “Railway Cottages at Port Clarence ” were separate to the houses in the photos above.
There were a number of railway cottages inside the Clarence Iron works which would have been inhabited by Bell Brothers workers who were in charge of the shunting of minerals from the North Eastern Railway’s line into the iron works.
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I bet they were very attractive buildings in their heyday when originally built, Where they NER or Clarence Railway though??
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By 1865 the Port Clarence Branch Line was run by the North Eastern Railway Company. I believe these houses post-date 1865.
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Worked in the railway goods yard behind there in 1949 as a number taker and dogs body
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