Kimberley Gardens, home of Sid Chaplin
Kimberley Gardens, home of Sid Chaplin
HER Number
13291
District
Newcastle
Site Name
Kimberley Gardens, home of Sid Chaplin
Place
Heaton
Map Sheet
NZ26NE
Class
Domestic
Site Type: Broad
House
Site Type: Specific
House
General Period
POST MEDIEVAL
Specific Period
Victorian 1837 to 1901
Form of Evidence
Extant Building
Description
Sid Chaplin 1916 - 1986. Home of the author Sid Chaplin. Formerly a pitman his acclaimed works about the North-East include 'The Thin Seam' and 'The Day of the Sardine'.
Easting
426200
Northing
565900
Grid Reference
NZ426200565900
Sources
Ben Smith, 2010, Newcastle Commemorative Plaques (unpublished Word document); https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Sid_Chaplin; Jeremy Hawthorn (ed), 1984, "The Making of a Working-Class Writer - An Interview with Sid Chaplin", in The British Working-Class Novel in the Twentieth Century