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CWS Works, Pelaw
Pelaw came into being when the Cooperative Wholesale Society (C.W.S) established factories here in the late 1890s. Built on former agricultural land located between Heworth village and Bill Quay, the works grew to become one of the CWS' major industrial complexes in Britain.
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Pelaw The Cooperative Wholesale Society Pelaw Works
- Aricle by by Joan Hewitt. "The vast group of factories which occupied the ground between Shields Road and the railway was established by the Lancashire cooperative movement, to spread the …
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Tyne and Wear HER(13168): Pelaw, Shields Road, CWS pyjama factory
- "1920s Co-operative Wholesale Society factory. An L-shaped building. The main section is two storeys in red brick English garden wall one and three bond but there is a single storey …
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Tyne and Wear HER(7604): Pelaw, Shields Road, factory of Robert Howarth Ltd
- "This was a CWS cabinet works, later a shirt factory.....A painted sign reads 'CO-OPERATIVE WHOLESALE SOCIETY SHIRT FACTORY' which would have been visible from the adjacent Brandling Junction Railway line. …
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Tyne and Wear HER(13169): Pelaw, Shields Road, air raid shelters
- "Six World War Two underground air raid shelters lie within a grassed area between the CWS shirt factory and the pyjama factory. These are shown on a 1989 plan found …
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CWS Co-operative Pelaw Hy-Glos furniture polish advertisement 1950s
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Lych Gate - St Mary's Church, Heworth
- Overview Map Street View The lych gate at St Mary's Church in Heworth was built in memory of the late King George V. The idea for the commemorative lych gate was …
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Pelaw The Cooperative Wholesale Society Pelaw Works
- Aricle by by Joan Hewitt. "The vast group of factories which occupied the ground between Shields Road and the railway was established by the Lancashire cooperative movement, to spread the …
Added by
Simon Cotterill
from http://twsitelines.info/SMR/1…
Tyne and Wear HER(13168): Pelaw, Shields Road, CWS pyjama factory
- "1920s Co-operative Wholesale Society factory. An L-shaped building. The main section is two storeys in red brick English garden wall one and three bond but there is a single storey …
Added by
Simon Cotterill
from http://twsitelines.info/SMR/7…
Tyne and Wear HER(7604): Pelaw, Shields Road, factory of Robert Howarth Ltd
- "This was a CWS cabinet works, later a shirt factory.....A painted sign reads 'CO-OPERATIVE WHOLESALE SOCIETY SHIRT FACTORY' which would have been visible from the adjacent Brandling Junction Railway line. …
Added by
Simon Cotterill
from http://www.twsitelines.info/S…
Tyne and Wear HER(13169): Pelaw, Shields Road, air raid shelters
- "Six World War Two underground air raid shelters lie within a grassed area between the CWS shirt factory and the pyjama factory. These are shown on a 1989 plan found …
Added by
Simon Cotterill
from Flickr (flickr)
CWS Co-operative Pelaw Hy-Glos furniture polish advertisement 1950s
Pinned by Simon Cotterill
