Tyne and Wear HER(15724): East Rainton, Paddy's Row - Details
15724
Sunderland
East Rainton, Paddy's Row
East Rainton
NZ34NW
Domestic
Multiple Dwelling
Terrace
Early Modern
C19
Documentary Evidence
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.
3352
4802
NZ33524802
East Rainton Women's Institute, no date, History of East Rainton (typescript); Hetton Local & Natural History Society, 2015, The Hetton Village Atlas p565;