Title: Barmoor Lane, Ryton, 1950
Photographer: Unknown
Date: 1950
Reference Number: 02_18
Item Description: Head of Barmoor Lane looking down towards Ryton School. On the left of the photograph is the corner of Orchard Cottage, for many years a general dealers but now a private residence.
The image is taken from one of a number of glass plate negatives collected by W.A. Cocks of Ryton. W.A. Cocks was a keen local historian, archaeologist and an inveterate collector. He not only collected and played pipes, but also made them. He helped to produce the first ever book of plans for making Northumbrian pipes and researched extensively into the history of the pipes in the region. His collection of glass plates date from the late 1890s to the 1950s. Many of the early images were taken by J.P. Dalton, Surveyor to Ryton Urban District Council between 1898 and 1905. The plates are numbered and an annotated notebook in Cock's hand accompanies the collection from which title and date information is taken.
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