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Blackhills Road - Horden (hord0014)

The Six Williams Brothers Who Served In The First World War
Road Leading From Warren Street To Horden Hall Farm

Postcard photograph entitled Blackhill Road, Horden. 1566, showing the right-hand side of a road going uphill away from the camera; the facades of shops can be seen, including those of R( )owley, Tobacconist, Newsagent, Fancy Goods Dealer, and Gales Penny Bazaar; in the distance is a large building, possibly a cinema; approximately twenty six indistinct figures can be seen in the road and on the pavements

Blackhills Road - Horden

Postcard photograph entitled Blackhill Road, Horden. 1566, showing the right-hand side of a road going uphill away from the camera; the facades of shops can be seen, including those of R( )owley, Tobacconist, Newsagent, Fancy Goods Dealer, and Gales Penny Bazaar; in the distance is a large building, possibly a cinema; approximately twenty six indistinct figures can be seen in the road and on the pavements

Date: 1910 - 1919

The shop was called Cowley, and the building was the Empress Theatre (picture house)

Comment added by Albert Oliver on 02/11/2008 13:38:00

The name of the newsagents was Cowley. I was born in Horden in 1947 and the shop was still there in the 1950s.

Comment added by Jim Attley on 30/09/2008 15:24:00

The shop next to the picture house, now shar's was Kilburns dealing in houseware type items. Where as the Fifth Street shop of Kilburns dealt in clothes and shoes.

Comment added by Jim Wilson on 18/03/2009 10:34:00

the theatre was called "the empress"

Comment added by George Brown on 18/03/2009 12:23:00

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