East Rainton, Paddy's Row

HER Number:
15724

District:
Sunderland

Site Name:
East Rainton, Paddy's Row

Place:
East Rainton

Map Sheet:
NZ34NW

Class:
Domestic

Site Type: Broad:
Multiple Dwelling

Site Type: Specific:
Terrace

General Period:
Early Modern

Specific Period:
C19

Form of Evidence:
Documentary Evidence

Description:
A row of four houses. Known as Paddy's Row after the Irish miner who lived at No. 1. Every Saturday night Paddy, an Irish miner, for drunk, and when the pubs closed he moved slowly and deliberatly along the street trailing his coat behind him. This was a recognised challenge to anyone in the village wanting to fight him for the right to live for a week in the first house in Paddy's Row. The house appeared to belong to no-one, but Paddy had taken posession of it and if anyone accepted the challenge and beat him, Paddy slept under the hedge.

Easting:
3352

Northing:
4802

Grid Reference:
NZ33524802

Lats/Lons:

Sources:
East Rainton Women's Institute, no date, History of East Rainton (typescript); Hetton Local & Natural History Society, 2015, The Hetton Village Atlas p565;