Blayney Row from the north. Photo A Curtis (2010).
The terraced houses of Blayney Row were built for the employees of Heddon Brickworks by Bates of Heddon Hall in 1889 and sold to the Throckley Coal Company in 1895.
Cadwallader John Bates (1853–1902), was a notable antiquarian who inherited Heddon Hall, Colliery and Brick Works from his father Thomas Bates.
The Bates family had been established in Northumberland since the fourteenth century, but their connection with the Blayneys of Gregynog, Montgomeryshire, introduced a strain of Celtic blood, and Cadwallader himself was named after a cousin, the twelfth and last Lord Blayney (d. 1874).
This was the connection used by Cadwallader John Bates in his naming of Blayney Row.
Another row of terraced houses nearby, Moore Court, also now in Newburn parish, was named for the maiden name of the mother of his great uncle, Thomas Bates, a famous stock-breeder.
Cadwallader John Bates (1853–1902), was a notable antiquarian who inherited Heddon Hall, Colliery and Brick Works from his father Thomas Bates.
The Bates family had been established in Northumberland since the fourteenth century, but their connection with the Blayneys of Gregynog, Montgomeryshire, introduced a strain of Celtic blood, and Cadwallader himself was named after a cousin, the twelfth and last Lord Blayney (d. 1874).
This was the connection used by Cadwallader John Bates in his naming of Blayney Row.
Another row of terraced houses nearby, Moore Court, also now in Newburn parish, was named for the maiden name of the mother of his great uncle, Thomas Bates, a famous stock-breeder.
Blayney Row & Throckley Colliery from Ryton Church c.1900. Gateshead Ref.03_12.
The photos below were kindly supplied by John Taberham, a member of the St James Heritage and Environment Group in Benwell. They show the ornate cast-iron vent or stench pipe almost hidden by vegetation behind the houses at Blayney Row.
 Stench pipe, Blayney Row. Photo J Taberham (2020). |  Stench pipe, Blayney Row. Photo J Taberham (2020). |
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