Then & Now

Well? - Did You Guess?

Edith Avenue with East View on the left (With people standing outside) and the Methodist Chapel built in 1909. St Michaels Church is on the left at the bottom of the bank, Pawsons Clothing factory was just down from St Michaels Church on the right hand side.
Usworth Colliery is just visible straight ahead. This street was named after Edith Douglas wife of a past pit manager. The houses in the top rows of the Avenue were the last to display an old link with mining history.
This was the knocking up boards which were nailed to the wall at the side of the front doors. On these boards the miner of the house chalked the time he needed to be knocked up for his shift in the early hours of the morning. The man who carried out the tapping on the window was known as the “Knocker Up”

In the Now photograph only East View remains but has been re-named Banbury