Bridge Street, Gateshead

In 1899, Robert Lendrem (1858-1910) arrived in Gateshead with his wife Mary Jane Warwick (1869-1950) and two surviving children - William and Jane. The contrast with Barnard Castle must have been extreme. Robert began work as a labourer in the docks at the bottom of Bridge Street in Gateshead.  A notorious slum in a bustling industrialized city, it is hard to imagine what the kids made of it all. Two more children - Wilfred and Charlotte followed in 1900 and 1902. Neither survived beyond infancy. By 1908 their eldest son, William, was back in Barnard Castle. On Robert's death, in 1910, Mary Jane quickly upped sticks and returned to Barnard Castle with her daughter Jane.

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