Old Maps of Blyth

Cobbled together by Peter Loud

Some maps are very wide, so you will need to scroll to the right.
The dates of the maps are not accurate. Sometimes the date might refer to
when the map was created or revised and sometimes when it was published.

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Blyth, c.1828




Blyth Region, c.1860



Ashington & Newbiggin down to Cramilington & Seaton Sluice, c.1897



Higher Resolution Cambois, Cowpen, Newsham & Blyth, c.1897



Blyth, c.1920



Blyth, c.1922




Cambois, c.1922



Centre of Blyth, c.1937




Newsham and New Delaval, c.1937



Blyth, Map revised 1940, published 1949



Blyth and surrounding areas, Map revised 1964, published 1967



Newsham, Blyth, Map revised 1964, published 1967



Later maps of Blyth.
For me, Blyth then, c.1960, was at its best. I am so proud of what Blyth was. Blyth was full of council houses immaculately maintained, with tidy, well-kept, hedged font gardens and reasonable-sized back gardens. This was British socialism. Those council houses starting in the 1920s were built to higher standards than starter homes are today.

Then the Tories forced local authorities to sell them off to the well-off working class, who had an eye to a quick £££. I am not criticising those council house tenants who bought. Given such an opportunity they would be fools not to take it. Now, 2017, it is Nationalism, UKIP Natsies, every man for himself and stuff anyone poorer or different to me.



The History of Blyth

Norman Times to 1869


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A computer game about the development of Northumberland


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School Photos from Blyth
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