Shiney Row
"Shiney Row is a colliery village in this township, two miles west-by-north of Houghton-le-Spring. Here is a Wesleyan Methodist Chapel, a handsome structure in the Early English style, erected in 1852 at a cost of £320, which sum was bequeathed by the Allen family, who resided at the village. There is a Endowed School recorded in 1834. The Londonderry Endowed School is recorded as being build in 1847. Whellan, London, 1894
The other claim to fame is that George Elliott lived in Chandler's Row, which was named after the candle factory. He spend his childhood in this street, up to when he started the work at the local colliery, where his father Ralph was an overman.
A Question for you. Does anyone remember Miss McCall a teacher at Shiney Row school in the 1930's who used to recite a poem with the title "The Peeler and the Goat" this was a local poem about the policeman in Penshaw and a goat? a version can be read on the Penshaw page
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