Sunderland Borough Police introduced police boxes in 1920. They were designed by Chief Constable Frederick James Crawley of Newcastle. The first Sunderland boxes were placed along tram routes. There was one built into the brickwork of the curved wall on the corner of Kayll Road and Hylton Road. They were like the Newcastle boxes, four foot square, painted green, with two small square 6-light windows at the top of all four sides and a pitched black felt roof. They contained a small desk, a stool. Some were lit by electric, others had gas lamps. The telephone and first aid kit were in a compartment on the outside. The boxes were made by the carpentry shop in Binns of Newcastle for just under £13 each. In the mid 1930s the Sunderland boxes were painted blue. From 1935 a new type of police box was introduced in Sunderland and South Shields. These were similar to the Scarborough 'helter skelter' shaped boxes. The first ones were painted in the local Corporation colours (green and red) but later ones were painted light blue and cream.
SITEASS
Police boxes are usually metal, wooden or concrete boxes containing a telephone for use by the public, limited accommodation for use as a temporary cell, and a lamp on top that could be used to attract the attention of a passing patrol. Police boxes were introduced in America soon after the telephone was invented in 1876. They were introduced in Britain in the 1920s. Chief Constable Frederick James Crawley, Chief Constable of Newcastle, introduced police boxes in Sunderland from April 1923. The police boxes provided each constable on the beat with a mini police station so they did not need to travel back and forth to the station proper. The Newcastle police boxes were wooden and looked like sentry boxes. They cost £13 each to build. They were four feet square and contained a desk, electric lighting and a heater. The telephone and first aid kit were accessible from outside. The Metropolitan Police didn't introduce police boxes in London until 1929. Gilbert Mackenzie Trench designed the famous police box made famous by Doctor Who. Early ones were wood, later concrete. An entire network of around 700 police boxes was installed in London in 1930, costing £43 each. 9 or 10 police boxes still exist in Glasgow and Edinburgh. These were originally red. Crich Tramway village has the only known surviving Mk2 Metropolitan Police Box in the world. The North Shields example might not be as attractive as the famous blue boxes. It has been added to the HER due to the historic interest of police boxes as a monument.
Site Type: Broad
Telecommunication Structure
SITEDESC
Sunderland Borough Police introduced police boxes in 1920. They were designed by Chief Constable Frederick James Crawley of Newcastle. The first Sunderland boxes were placed along tram routes. There was one built into the brickwork of the curved wall on the corner of Kayll Road and Hylton Road. They were like the Newcastle boxes, four foot square, painted green, with two small square 6-light windows at the top of all four sides and a pitched black felt roof. They contained a small desk, a stool. Some were lit by electric, others had gas lamps. The telephone and first aid kit were in a compartment on the outside. The boxes were made by the carpentry shop in Binns of Newcastle for just under £13 each. In the mid 1930s the Sunderland boxes were painted blue. From 1935 a new type of police box was introduced in Sunderland and South Shields. These were similar to the Scarborough 'helter skelter' shaped boxes. The first ones were painted in the local Corporation colours (green and red) but later ones were painted light blue and cream.
Site Name
Kayll Road/Hylton Road, police box
Site Type: Specific
Police Box
HER Number
16597
Form of Evidence
Documentary Evidence
Sources
Petra Caroline [Henderson]'s Police and Police Boxes Virtual Telephone Museum, Sunderland Borough Police Box (1920) and Sunderland and South Shields Police Box 1935, www.henderson-tele.com/police/boxes/bytown2.html; Immanuel Burton, 2006, A Brief History of the Police Box, November 2006 newsletter of the Construction History Society, www.policeboxes.com; Decentralization and the Police Box System by Frederick James Crawley, Chief Constable of Newcastle upon Tyne, The Police Journal, Volume 1, Number 1, January 1928; Peter Darrington, 2005, A History of the British Police Telephone Kiosk
YEAR1
2014
English, British
Class
Communications
COMP1
Jennifer Morrison
DAY1
31
District
Newcastle
Easting
424930
Grid ref figure
8
Map Sheet
NZ26SW
MONTH1
10
Grid Reference
NZ
Northing
564480
General Period
20TH CENTURY
Specific Period
Early 20th Century 1901 to 1932
Place
Newcastle
Description
A green London Metropolitan Police style police call box of pillar type located outside the Burtons Shop on the corner of Northumberland Street and Blackett Street. The box is shown a photo from the 1930s or early 1940s. These were 7 feet high pillars made from cast iron and timber. They were given to Newcastle in 1929. This was a permanently manned police location on a very busy road. Traffic lights were installed in the 1940s. The on duty policeman operated the traffic lights manually. Automatic lights were fitted in 1951 after the trams changed to trolley buses. The police pillar box was removed around 1952.
SITEASS
Police boxes are usually metal, wooden or concrete boxes containing a telephone for use by the public, limited accommodation for use as a temporary cell, and a lamp on top that could be used to attract the attention of a passing patrol. Police boxes were introduced in America soon after the telephone was invented in 1876. They were introduced in Britain in the 1920s. Chief Constable Frederick James Crawley, Chief Constable of Newcastle, introduced police boxes in Sunderland from April 1923. The police boxes provided each constable on the beat with a mini police station so they did not need to travel back and forth to the station proper. The Newcastle police boxes were wooden and looked like sentry boxes. They cost £13 each to build. They were four feet square and contained a desk, electric lighting and a heater. The telephone and first aid kit were accessible from outside. The Metropolitan Police didn't introduce police boxes in London until 1929. Gilbert Mackenzie Trench designed the famous police box made famous by Doctor Who. Early ones were wood, later concrete. An entire network of around 700 police boxes was installed in London in 1930, costing £43 each. 9 or 10 police boxes still exist in Glasgow and Edinburgh. These were originally red. Crich Tramway village has the only known surviving Mk2 Metropolitan Police Box in the world. The North Shields example might not be as attractive as the famous blue boxes. It has been added to the HER due to the historic interest of police boxes as a monument.
Site Type: Broad
Telecommunication Structure
SITEDESC
A green London Metropolitan Police style police call box of pillar type located outside the Burtons Shop on the corner of Northumberland Street and Blackett Street. The box is shown a photo from the 1930s or early 1940s. These were 7 feet high pillars made from cast iron and timber. They were given to Newcastle in 1929. This was a permanently manned police location on a very busy road. Traffic lights were installed in the 1940s. The on duty policeman operated the traffic lights manually. Automatic lights were fitted in 1951 after the trams changed to trolley buses. The police pillar box was removed around 1952.
Site Name
Northumberland Street, police box
Site Type: Specific
Police Box
HER Number
16596
Form of Evidence
Documentary Evidence
Sources
Petra Caroline [Henderson]'s Police and Police Boxes Virtual Telephone Museum, Police Box/Pillar Newcastle (London Metropolitan Police) Style (1930), www.henderson-tele.com/police/boxes/bytown2.html; Immanuel Burton, 2006, A Brief History of the Police Box, November 2006 newsletter of the Construction History Society, www.policeboxes.com; Decentralization and the Police Box System by Frederick James Crawley, Chief Constable of Newcastle upon Tyne, The Police Journal, Volume 1, Number 1, January 1928; Peter Darrington, 2005, A History of the British Police Telephone Kiosk
YEAR1
2014
English, British
AREA_STAT
Conservation Area
Class
Communications
COMP1
Jennifer Morrison
DAY1
31
District
Newcastle
Easting
424830
Grid ref figure
8
Map Sheet
NZ26SW
MONTH1
10
Grid Reference
NZ
Northing
564120
General Period
20TH CENTURY
Specific Period
Early 20th Century 1901 to 1932
Place
Newcastle
Description
Newcastle upon Tyne City Police introduced wooden police boxes in 1922 that were painted green and white, had two small square 6-light windows at the top of each elevation and red felt roofs. They were designed by Chief Constable Fred Crawley and manufactured by Binns for £12 18s 6d each. One such police box was located beside the public conveniences in the Bigg Market. It remained there until the late 1970s. The Bigg Market police box appeared in the first issue of The Police Journal, Volume 1, Issue 1 in January 1928.
SITEASS
Police boxes are usually metal, wooden or concrete boxes containing a telephone for use by the public, limited accommodation for use as a temporary cell, and a lamp on top that could be used to attract the attention of a passing patrol. Police boxes were introduced in America soon after the telephone was invented in 1876. They were introduced in Britain in the 1920s. Chief Constable Frederick James Crawley, Chief Constable of Newcastle, introduced police boxes in Sunderland from April 1923. The police boxes provided each constable on the beat with a mini police station so they did not need to travel back and forth to the station proper. The Newcastle police boxes were wooden and looked like sentry boxes. They cost £13 each to build. They were four feet square and contained a desk, electric lighting and a heater. The telephone and first aid kit were accessible from outside. The Metropolitan Police didn't introduce police boxes in London until 1929. Gilbert Mackenzie Trench designed the famous police box made famous by Doctor Who. Early ones were wood, later concrete. An entire network of around 700 police boxes was installed in London in 1930, costing £43 each. 9 or 10 police boxes still exist in Glasgow and Edinburgh. These were originally red. Crich Tramway village has the only known surviving Mk2 Metropolitan Police Box in the world. The North Shields example might not be as attractive as the famous blue boxes. It has been added to the HER due to the historic interest of police boxes as a monument.
Site Type: Broad
Telecommunication Structure
SITEDESC
Newcastle upon Tyne City Police introduced wooden police boxes in 1922 that were painted green and white, had two small square 6-light windows at the top of each elevation and red felt roofs. They were designed by Chief Constable Fred Crawley and manufactured by Binns for £12 18s 6d each. One such police box was located beside the public conveniences in the Bigg Market. It remained there until the late 1970s. The Bigg Market police box appeared in the first issue of The Police Journal, Volume 1, Issue 1 in January 1928.
Site Name
Bigg Market, police box
Site Type: Specific
Police Box
HER Number
16594
Form of Evidence
Documentary Evidence
Sources
Petra Caroline [Henderson]'s Police and Police Boxes Virtual Telephone Museum, Police Box Newcastle Style (1922-1925), www.henderson-tele.com/police/boxes/bytown2.html; Immanuel Burton, 2006, A Brief History of the Police Box, November 2006 newsletter of the Construction History Society, www.policeboxes.com; Decentralization and the Police Box System by Frederick James Crawley, Chief Constable of Newcastle upon Tyne, The Police Journal, Volume 1, Number 1, January 1928; Peter Darrington, 2005, A History of the British Police Telephone Kiosk
YEAR1
2014
English, British
Class
Communications
COMP1
Jennifer Morrison
DAY1
31
District
Newcastle
Easting
424000
Grid ref figure
4
Map Sheet
NZ26SW
MONTH1
10
Grid Reference
NZ
Northing
564000
General Period
20TH CENTURY
Specific Period
Early 20th Century 1901 to 1932
Place
Newcastle
Description
Newcastle upon Tyne City Police introduced wooden police boxes in 1922 that were painted green and white, had two small square 6-light windows at the top of each elevation and red tiled roofs. They were designed by Chief Constable Fred Crawley and manufactured by Binns for £12 18s 6d each. The first Newcastle box was located at a busy junction on the Great North Road. The duty policeman was there to control the traffic. A blue glass gas lamp on a green lampost was added in front of the police box to show that it was permanently manned. Several years later a flashing alert lamp and gong were added. Between 1949 and 1953 a set of manually operated traffic lights were installed at the junction. A K6 phone box was added. The police box, K6 telephone box and the traffic lights are shown on a photo of circa 1955.
SITEASS
Police boxes are usually metal, wooden or concrete boxes containing a telephone for use by the public, limited accommodation for use as a temporary cell, and a lamp on top that could be used to attract the attention of a passing patrol. Police boxes were introduced in America soon after the telephone was invented in 1876. They were introduced in Britain in the 1920s. Chief Constable Frederick James Crawley, Chief Constable of Newcastle, introduced police boxes in Sunderland from April 1923. The police boxes provided each constable on the beat with a mini police station so they did not need to travel back and forth to the station proper. The Newcastle police boxes were wooden and looked like sentry boxes. They cost £13 each to build. They were four feet square and contained a desk, electric lighting and a heater. The telephone and first aid kit were accessible from outside. The Metropolitan Police didn't introduce police boxes in London until 1929. Gilbert Mackenzie Trench designed the famous police box made famous by Doctor Who. Early ones were wood, later concrete. An entire network of around 700 police boxes was installed in London in 1930, costing £43 each. 9 or 10 police boxes still exist in Glasgow and Edinburgh. These were originally red. Crich Tramway village has the only known surviving Mk2 Metropolitan Police Box in the world. The North Shields example might not be as attractive as the famous blue boxes. It has been added to the HER due to the historic interest of police boxes as a monument.
Site Type: Broad
Telecommunication Structure
SITEDESC
Newcastle upon Tyne City Police introduced wooden police boxes in 1922 that were painted green and white, had two small square 6-light windows at the top of each elevation and red tiled roofs. They were designed by Chief Constable Fred Crawley and manufactured by Binns for £12 18s 6d each. The first Newcastle box was located at a busy junction on the Great North Road. The duty policeman was there to control the traffic. A blue glass gas lamp on a green lampost was added in front of the police box to show that it was permanently manned. Several years later a flashing alert lamp and gong were added. Between 1949 and 1953 a set of manually operated traffic lights were installed at the junction. A K6 phone box was added. The police box, K6 telephone box and the traffic lights are shown on a photo of circa 1955.
Site Name
Great North Road, police box
Site Type: Specific
Police Box
HER Number
16593
Form of Evidence
Documentary Evidence
Sources
Petra Caroline [Henderson]'s Police and Police Boxes Virtual Telephone Museum, Police Box Newcastle Style (1922-1925), www.henderson-tele.com/police/boxes/bytown2.html; Immanuel Burton, 2006, A Brief History of the Police Box, November 2006 newsletter of the Construction History Society, www.policeboxes.com; Decentralization and the Police Box System by Frederick James Crawley, Chief Constable of Newcastle upon Tyne, The Police Journal, Volume 1, Number 1, January 1928; Peter Darrington, 2005, A History of the British Police Telephone Kiosk
YEAR1
2014
English, British
Class
Communications
COMP1
Jennifer Morrison
DAY1
31
District
Newcastle
Easting
424000
Grid ref figure
4
Map Sheet
NZ26SE
MONTH1
10
Grid Reference
NZ
Northing
565000
General Period
POST MEDIEVAL
Specific Period
Victorian 1837 to 1901
Place
Newcastle
Description
Newcastle had several combined police lock-up and pant. They were built between the 1860s and 1890s. They were stone, shaped like later metal police boxes, with a low pyramidal roof with a lantern on the top. Drunks and petty criminals could be temporarily locked up in here by the policeman on the beat.
SITEASS
Police boxes are usually metal, wooden or concrete boxes containing a telephone for use by the public, limited accommodation for use as a temporary cell, and a lamp on top that could be used to attract the attention of a passing patrol. Police boxes were introduced in America soon after the telephone was invented in 1876. They were introduced in Britain in the 1920s. Chief Constable Frederick James Crawley, Chief Constable of Newcastle, introduced police boxes in Sunderland from April 1923. The police boxes provided each constable on the beat with a mini police station so they did not need to travel back and forth to the station proper. The Newcastle police boxes were wooden and looked like sentry boxes. They cost £13 each to build. They were four feet square and contained a desk, electric lighting and a heater. The telephone and first aid kit were accessible from outside. The Metropolitan Police didn't introduce police boxes in London until 1929. Gilbert Mackenzie Trench designed the famous police box made famous by Doctor Who. Early ones were wood, later concrete. An entire network of around 700 police boxes was installed in London in 1930, costing £43 each. 9 or 10 police boxes still exist in Glasgow and Edinburgh. These were originally red. Crich Tramway village has the only known surviving Mk2 Metropolitan Police Box in the world. The North Shields example might not be as attractive as the famous blue boxes. It has been added to the HER due to the historic interest of police boxes as a monument.
Site Type: Broad
Telecommunication Structure
SITEDESC
Newcastle had several combined police lock-up and pant. They were built between the 1860s and 1890s. They were stone, shaped like later metal police boxes, with a low pyramidal roof with a lantern on the top. Drunks and petty criminals could be temporarily locked up in here by the policeman on the beat.
Site Name
Police lock-up and pant
Site Type: Specific
Police Box
HER Number
16592
Form of Evidence
Documentary Evidence
Sources
Petra Caroline [Henderson]'s Police and Police Boxes Virtual Telephone Museum, Police Lock-Up and Pant (Public Water Standpipe or drinking trough), Newcastle (1865); www.henderson-tele.com/police/boxes/bytown2.html; Immanuel Burton, 2006, A Brief History of the Police Box, November 2006 newsletter of the Construction History Society, www.policeboxes.com; Decentralization and the Police Box System by Frederick James Crawley, Chief Constable of Newcastle upon Tyne, The Police Journal, Volume 1, Number 1, January 1928; Peter Darrington, 2005, A History of the British Police Telephone Kiosk
YEAR1
2014
English, British
AREA_STAT
Conservation Area
Class
Communications
COMP1
Jennifer Morrison
DAY1
31
District
Newcastle
Easting
424940
Grid ref figure
8
Map Sheet
NZ26SW
MONTH1
10
Grid Reference
NZ
Northing
564050
General Period
POST MEDIEVAL
Specific Period
Victorian 1837 to 1901
Place
Newcastle
Description
Hexagonal police signal box with gas lamp on the roof. Used the gas lamp for signalling. Located in front of the town hall (east side of south elevation). Shown on a photo which must post-date September 1894, as the Rutherford Fountain is present. Pre-dates 1900 because the tram posts are not present. Not clear whether it is wooden or metal. The Rutherford Fountain was moved to the Bigg Market in 1903 and was replaced by a statue of Queen Victoria. Photos of the statue unveiling in 1903 do not show the police signal box so it had been removed by that date. A similar demo-model of a wooden hexagonal NTC police signal box is shown on a photo of Glasgow, taken in 1895.
SITEASS
Police boxes are usually metal, wooden or concrete boxes containing a telephone for use by the public, limited accommodation for use as a temporary cell, and a lamp on top that could be used to attract the attention of a passing patrol. Police boxes were introduced in America soon after the telephone was invented in 1876. They were introduced in Britain in the 1920s. Chief Constable Frederick James Crawley, Chief Constable of Newcastle, introduced police boxes in Sunderland from April 1923. The police boxes provided each constable on the beat with a mini police station so they did not need to travel back and forth to the station proper. The Newcastle police boxes were wooden and looked like sentry boxes. They cost £13 each to build. They were four feet square and contained a desk, electric lighting and a heater. The telephone and first aid kit were accessible from outside. The Metropolitan Police didn't introduce police boxes in London until 1929. Gilbert Mackenzie Trench designed the famous police box made famous by Doctor Who. Early ones were wood, later concrete. An entire network of around 700 police boxes was installed in London in 1930, costing £43 each. 9 or 10 police boxes still exist in Glasgow and Edinburgh. These were originally red. Crich Tramway village has the only known surviving Mk2 Metropolitan Police Box in the world. The North Shields example might not be as attractive as the famous blue boxes. It has been added to the HER due to the historic interest of police boxes as a monument.
Site Type: Broad
Telecommunication Structure
SITEDESC
Hexagonal police signal box with gas lamp on the roof. Used the gas lamp for signalling. Located in front of the town hall (east side of south elevation). Shown on a photo which must post-date September 1894, as the Rutherford Fountain is present. Pre-dates 1900 because the tram posts are not present. Not clear whether it is wooden or metal. The Rutherford Fountain was moved to the Bigg Market in 1903 and was replaced by a statue of Queen Victoria. Photos of the statue unveiling in 1903 do not show the police signal box so it had been removed by that date. A similar demo-model of a wooden hexagonal NTC police signal box is shown on a photo of Glasgow, taken in 1895.
Site Name
St. Nicholas Square, police signal box
Site Type: Specific
Police Box
HER Number
16591
Form of Evidence
Documentary Evidence
Sources
Petra Caroline [Henderson]'s Police and Police Boxes Virtual Telephone Museum, www.henderson-tele.com/police/boxes/bytown2.html; Immanuel Burton, 2006, A Brief History of the Police Box, November 2006 newsletter of the Construction History Society, www.policeboxes.com; Decentralization and the Police Box System by Frederick James Crawley, Chief Constable of Newcastle upon Tyne, The Police Journal, Volume 1, Number 1, January 1928; Peter Darrington, 2005, A History of the British Police Telephone Kiosk
YEAR1
2014
English, British
Class
Communications
COMP1
Jennifer Morrison
DAY1
31
District
S Tyneside
Easting
436550
Grid ref figure
8
Map Sheet
NZ36NE
MATERIAL
Metal
MONTH1
10
Grid Reference
NZ
Northing
562720
General Period
20TH CENTURY
Specific Period
20th Century 1901 to 2000
Place
South Shields
Description
Located next to the Red Duster Public House. The box would have contained a telephone behind a glass window, which would have been used by the local beat constable to contact the police station or by the public. Painted blue metal. Not a full size police box (which contained a chair and desk). This is literally a box for a telephone, similar to the original police posts which can still be seen in London. Photographed in 2007.
SITEASS
Police boxes are usually metal, wooden or concrete boxes containing a telephone for use by the public, limited accommodation for use as a temporary cell, and a lamp on top that could be used to attract the attention of a passing patrol. Police boxes were introduced in America soon after the telephone was invented in 1876. They were introduced in Britain in the 1920s. Chief Constable Frederick James Crawley, Chief Constable of Newcastle, introduced police boxes in Sunderland from April 1923. The police boxes provided each constable on the beat with a mini police station so they did not need to travel back and forth to the station proper. The Newcastle police boxes were wooden and looked like sentry boxes. They cost £13 each to build. They were four feet square and contained a desk, electric lighting and a heater. The telephone and first aid kit were accessible from outside. The Metropolitan Police didn't introduce police boxes in London until 1929. Gilbert Mackenzie Trench designed the famous police box made famous by Doctor Who. Early ones were wood, later concrete. An entire network of around 700 police boxes was installed in London in 1930, costing £43 each. 9 or 10 police boxes still exist in Glasgow and Edinburgh. These were originally red. Crich Tramway village has the only known surviving Mk2 Metropolitan Police Box in the world. The North Shields example might not be as attractive as the famous blue boxes. It has been added to the HER due to the historic interest of police boxes as a monument.
Site Type: Broad
Telecommunication Structure
SITEDESC
Located next to the Red Duster Public House. The box would have contained a telephone behind a glass window, which would have been used by the local beat constable to contact the police station or by the public. Painted blue metal. Not a full size police box (which contained a chair and desk). This is literally a box for a telephone, similar to the original police posts which can still be seen in London. Photographed in 2007.
Former police box 12. Small brick building with felt roof. Converted into Quintessence Beauty Studio in 2009. New slate roof installed, with roof light and a pretty scalloped barge board and decorative finial on front elevation, painted green. Police boxes are usually metal, wooden or concrete boxes containing a telephone for use by the public, limited accommodation for use as a temporary cell, and a lamp on top that could be used to attract the attention of a passing patrol. Police boxes were introduced in America soon after the telephone was invented in 1876. They were introduced in Britain in the 1920s. Chief Constable Frederick James Crawley, Chief Constable of Newcastle, introduced police boxes in Sunderland from April 1923. The police boxes provided each constable on the beat with a mini police station so they did not need to travel back and forth to the station proper. The Newcastle police boxes were wooden and looked like sentry boxes. They cost £13 each to build. They were four feet square and contained a desk, electric lighting and a heater. The telephone and first aid kit were accessible from outside. The Metropolitan Police didn't introduce police boxes in London until 1929. Gilbert Mackenzie Trench designed the famous police box made famous by Doctor Who. Early ones were wood, later concrete. An entire network of around 700 police boxes was installed in London in 1930, costing £43 each. 9 or 10 police boxes still exist in Glasgow and Edinburgh. These were originally red. Crich Tramway village has the only known surviving Mk2 Metropolitan Police Box in the world. The North Shields example might not be as attractive as the famous blue boxes. It has been added to the HER due to the historic interest of police boxes as a monument.
SITEASS
Police boxes are usually metal, wooden or concrete boxes containing a telephone for use by the public, limited accommodation for use as a temporary cell, and a lamp on top that could be used to attract the attention of a passing patrol. Police boxes were introduced in America soon after the telephone was invented in 1876. They were introduced in Britain in the 1920s. Chief Constable Frederick James Crawley, Chief Constable of Newcastle, introduced police boxes in Sunderland from April 1923. The police boxes provided each constable on the beat with a mini police station so they did not need to travel back and forth to the station proper. The Newcastle police boxes were wooden and looked like sentry boxes. They cost £13 each to build. They were four feet square and contained a desk, electric lighting and a heater. The telephone and first aid kit were accessible from outside. The Metropolitan Police didn't introduce police boxes in London until 1929. Gilbert Mackenzie Trench designed the famous police box made famous by Doctor Who. Early ones were wood, later concrete. An entire network of around 700 police boxes was installed in London in 1930, costing £43 each. 9 or 10 police boxes still exist in Glasgow and Edinburgh. These were originally red. Crich Tramway village has the only known surviving Mk2 Metropolitan Police Box in the world. The North Shields example might not be as attractive as the famous blue boxes. It has been added to the HER due to the historic interest of police boxes as a monument.
Site Type: Broad
Telecommunication Structure
SITEDESC
Former police box 12. Small brick building with felt roof. Converted into Quintessence Beauty Studio in 2009. New slate roof installed, with roof light and a pretty scalloped barge board and decorative finial on front elevation, painted green.
Site Name
Preston Avenue, police box
Site Type: Specific
Police Box
HER Number
16589
Form of Evidence
Extant Building
Sources
English Heritage Monument Thesaurus; Immanuel Burton, 2006, A Brief History of the Police Box, November 2006 newsletter of the Construction History Society, www.policeboxes.com; Decentralization and the Police Box System by Frederick James Crawley, Chief Constable of Newcastle upon Tyne, The Police Journal, Volume 1, Number 1, January 1928; Peter Darrington, 2005, A History of the British Police Telephone Kiosk
YEAR1
2014
English, British
Class
Domestic
COMP1
Jennifer Morrison
DAY1
30
District
Gateshead
Easting
419710
Grid ref figure
8
LANDUSE
Building
Map Sheet
NZ16SE
MATERIAL
Brick
MONTH1
10
Grid Reference
NZ
Northing
562490
General Period
20TH CENTURY
Specific Period
Early 20th Century 1901 to 1932
Place
Blaydon
Description
Shown on Ordnance Survey third edition of circa 1919. Attractive pair of red brick houses, two storeys. Sandstone decoration on overhanging eaves. Triangular pediment over first floor windows again with sandstone detail. Sandstone sills and lintels over renewed windows.
Site Type: Broad
House
SITEDESC
Shown on Ordnance Survey third edition of circa 1919. Attractive pair of red brick houses, two storeys. Sandstone decoration on overhanging eaves. Triangular pediment over first floor windows again with sandstone detail. Sandstone sills and lintels over renewed windows.
Site Name
1 and 2 Bates Lane
Site Type: Specific
Semi Detached House
HER Number
16588
Form of Evidence
Extant Building
Sources
Ordnance Survey Third Edition Map 1919
YEAR1
2014
English, British
Class
Domestic
COMP1
Jennifer Morrison
DAY1
30
District
Gateshead
Easting
419740
Grid ref figure
8
Map Sheet
NZ16SE
MATERIAL
Sandstone
MONTH1
10
Grid Reference
NZ
Northing
562490
General Period
POST MEDIEVAL
Specific Period
Post Medieval 1540 to 1901
Place
Blaydon
Description
Shown on Ordnance Survey first edition of circa 1858. No. 3 is a single storey rendered house with new pitched roof with rooflights. Stone outbuilding attached, again with a new roof. No. 4 is a two storey stone ?farmhouse with slate roof. Chimey stacks at either end.
SITEASS
Put forward for listing in 2009 in response to an application to replace No. 3 with three townhouses. Turned down for listing. Planning permission was refused.
Site Type: Broad
House
SITEDESC
Shown on Ordnance Survey first edition of circa 1858. No. 3 is a single storey stone house, painted white, with new pitched tiled roof with rooflights. Stone outbuilding attached, again with a new roof. No. 4 is a two storey stone farmhouse with slate roof. Chimney stacks at either end. Bourn, in 1850 states that Bates Houses date back to 1569. Local residents claim a date of 1380 for No. 3 and 1594 for No. 4 apparently based on dating of roof timbers. The existing buildings look nowhere near this old. Apparently in the 16th century the Neville family tired to sell cottages in the area to raise an army against Elizabeth I.
Site Name
3 and 4 Bates Lane, Bates Houses
Site Type: Specific
Semi Detached House
HER Number
16587
Form of Evidence
Extant Building
Sources
Ordnance Survey First Edition Map 1860; Pers Comm, David Lynn (retired councillor)