Hetton – Le – Hole
Including Easington Lane
Hetton -Le -Hole is a town and parish with a station on the Durham and Sunderland branch of the north eastern railway and is 255 miles by rail and 263 miles by road from London. 5 miles west from Seaham harbour, 6 ½ east north east from Durham and is 8 ½ south east from Sunderland, and is in the Houghton – le – Spring division of the county, north division of Easington ward , Houghton – le – Spring union and petty sessions division, county court district of Durham, and in the Rural Deanery of Houghton le spring.
The town is governed by an urban district council, formed by order of the local government board (1895). It is lighted by gas by the Hetton Coal company limited, and supplied with water by the Hetton –Le- Hole and Easington Lane Water Company, electric is supplied by the Newcastle on Tyne Electric Supply Company limited. The village has tram transport supplied by the Sunderland District Electric Tramway.
The ecclesiastical parish was formed on July 27th 1838, by an order in council, out of the townships of Hetton -Le -Hole and Great and Little Eppleton in the old parish oh Houghton- le- Spring. St Nicholas church originally erected in 1832 was pulled down in 1898 and a new church was build at a cost of £5400 and was consecrated on 29th April 1901 by the Bishop of Durham, the mother’s union give a font being of the early English style.
There are Wesleyan, Primitive Methodist, Independent and united Methodist chapels, and a Salvation Army hall. The cemetery is of 3 acres and was opened in 1891. A police station with two cells was erected in 1895. The Conservative Club was erected in 1897 costing £2000, housing reading room, and billiard, smoke and card rooms. There is also a refreshment bar and rooms for the caretaker.
The miner’s hall in Richard Street was erected in 1883 and will seat 800 persons. The Masonic hall was build in 1905 at a cost of £700
The Hetton coal company limited having the collieries employ a large part of the population.
Races are held here in October. The lord of the manor is the Hon Francis Bowes Lyon of Bidley Hall, Bardon Mill (Northumberland)
It is a well known fact that the village had a militant group of miners, who were ready to fight for better conditions
The local shops were owned run by the following people. (1828)
2 blacksmiths shops Robert Alder; Joseph Dawson
Braziers and tinplate workers William Maddison
Boot and shoe makers Colling W Atkinson
butchers William Greenwell; john Harrison; john Hutchinson; William Thompson
Druggists & grocers Michael Anderson
grocers & Drapers John Armstrong; Michael Hope; Francis Love; Mathew McIntosh; Isabella Stokoe.
Inns and Taverns - Coach and Horses, Thomas Wills; Fleece Inn, Thomas lamb; Letters, Ann Armstrong; Letters, William Huscroft; Queens Head, Thomas Willey; Rose and Crown, Thomas Harrison; White Lion, Thomas Day
Milliners & dress makers Elizabeth De Magistris
Painters and Glaziers Ralph Day; Mary Lamb; James Stark; Jane Thompson; William Waddle; Joseph Wright
Stone mason Thomas Dunlap
Surgeons Robert Edgar Phillipson; John Meggeson
Tailors Thomas Crofton; Joshua Eastwood; Edward Spencer; John Thompson
Tallow chandlers Joseph Billsborrow & Co
Easington Lane or Lyons
Is an ecclesiastical parish formed from Houghton le spring and Pittington parishes, on February 16th 1859. It is ¾ mile south from Hetton station and 1 ½ west from south Hetton station, both of which are served by the north eastern railway.
The Sunderland district electric tramway was extended to this village in 1906.
The church of St Michael and all Angels is an edifice of stone, and was build at a cost of £4000 consecrated in 1870, it consists of chancel, nave, aisles and south porch partly restored in 1906 at a cost of £1500
The local colliery is Elemore belonging to the Lambton and Hetton Coal Company limited.