Sunniside, Holmside Terrace

HER Number:
16371

District:
Gateshead

Site Name:
Sunniside, Holmside Terrace

Place:
Sunniside

Map Sheet:
NZ25NW

Class:
Domestic

Site Type: Broad:
Multiple Dwelling

Site Type: Specific:
Terrace

General Period:
Early Modern

Specific Period:
C19

Form of Evidence:
Extant Building

Description:
Built around 1905 for the Holmes family, who bought the land from Mr W Snow of Guthrey Villa. Matthew Holmes lived in Granby Terrace and worked on the Tanfield Railway in the 1880s. His grandfather Aaron Holmes lived at High Green near Old Sunniside in the 1840s. Around 1890 Matthew Holmes moved to Ravensworth Terrace. He was a mineral guard on the railway. He had two sons. Alec was born in 1886. He became a carter and had stables on the end of Holmeside Terrace in the 1920s.

Easting:
2103

Northing:
5882

Grid Reference:
NZ21035882

Lats/Lons:

Sources:
Sunniside Local History Society, no date, Front Street, Sunniside, www.sunnisidelocalhistorysociety.co.uk/frontst.html