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Percy Main is a small village absorbed into North Shields, North East England. Historically in Northumberland, it is now part of Tyne and Wear.

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History

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St John's church.

It is named after the colliery belonging to the Percy family, which was located just south of the railway, near St. John's church. The colliery was sunk in 1799 & went to a depth of 247 metres to the renowned Main seam, which was considered the best coal for household use. The village grew up around it to serve the pit, which eventually closed in 1895. In 1872, the population was recorded as 3,953, residing in 786 houses. The inhabitants worked mainly in the neighbouring docks and other industries. [1]

During World War II, children from the village were evacuated to Hexham, Northumberland.

Recreation

Sport

Sport is popular in the village, with Percy Main Cricket Club playing at St John's Green in the Northumberland and Tyneside Senior Cricket League, with their next door neighbours Percy Main Amateurs F.C. playing at Purvis Park in the Northern Football Alliance Premier Division. A hedge separates the two teams. [2]

Transport

Percy Main, Go Ahead Bus Depot. North Shields, Tyne and Wear. Percy Main (Go Ahead Bus Depot).jpg
Percy Main, Go Ahead Bus Depot. North Shields, Tyne and Wear.

Rail

The village's main and only modern-day railway station is the Percy Main Metro station.

The original footbridge from the station is preserved at the National Railway Museum, York. A passenger station opened on the Newcastle and North Shields Railway around 1840. [3] It closed on 11 August 1980 to allow conversion for the Metro, before re-opening on 14 November 1982. [4]

In 2020, Nexus constructed a new depot for the Tyne and Wear Metro on a former landfill site immediately to the east of the village. [5] The depot will house rolling stock while the South Gosforth Traction Maintenance Depot is reconstructed in anticipation of a new fleet in late 2021. Originally intended to be a temporary measure, upgrades to the Metro system around South Shields may mean the depot is made a permanent feature.

Bus

Go Ahead Group has a bus depot on Norham Road [6] and a number of its services pass through the village.

Hollywood Trivia

Film Director brothers Ridley Scott and Tony Scott formed their first film production company under the name Percy Main Productions. Thelma & Louise is a notable film during this time. In 1996 they renamed their production company to Scott Free, and finally to Scott Free Productions.

Religion

Percy Main is part of a Church of England parish that also includes Meadow Well, East Howdon and the Royal Quays.

The parish church, Tynemouth Percy St John, was built for the Duke of Northumberland in 1862, and is Grade II listed. [7] Designed by Anthony Salvin, it is built in sandstone and was re-ordered around 2000, to incorporate use as a community centre. [8] Located on St John's Terrace, the church shares a vicar with the nearby St Peter's, on the Balkwell estate. [9] The contemporary vicarage, at the junction of Waterville Road and Norham Road, was sold in the 1940s and converted into a pub, now The Redburn. A new vicarage was built adjacent to the church.

The Diocese of Newcastle's main administrative office is located at Church House, formerly Percy St John's Primary School. [10] The religious resources centre the diocese shares with the Diocese of Durham is also on the site. The earlier school it replaced was located on the site of St John's Court, immediately to the north of the church. Excess bricks from the building of the Court were used to construct a hall to the rear of the church. The 2000 re-ordering included re-cladding of the original brickwork, obscuring this.

The village, at one time, also had primitive Methodist and Baptist chapels, though these no longer exist. [11]

Education

Percy Main Primary School is located in the village. [12] After a short inspection by Ofsted in 2016, the school was rated as Good. [13]

Norham High School, providing secondary education, is located a little to the north. In 2016, a full Ofsted inspection found that the school Requires Improvement, however this was downgraded to inadequate in 2018, leading to its placement in special measures. A monitoring inspection the following year confirmed that the remedial action was having a positive result, though the school remains in special measures. [14]

Geography

The village is around a mile and a half south west of the centre of North Shields. The hamlet of East Howdon is almost immediately south.

The large Meadow Well estate borders the village to the north. The portion of the estate south of the Metro line, and to the east of Percy Main, was redeveloped as Riverside Park in the early 1990s.

The Royal Quays Outlet Centre and Northumbrian Water's treatment works lie between the village and the River Tyne.

Facilities

Redburn Park Medical Centre is located just to the north of the Metro station. [15]

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References

  1. ↑ "History of Percy Main, in North Tyneside and Northumberland | Map and description". www.visionofbritain.org.uk. Retrieved 30 July 2019.
  2. ↑ "Percy Main CC". percymain.play-cricket.com. Retrieved 14 May 2017.
  3. ↑ "Disused Stations: Percy Main Station". www.disused-stations.org.uk. Retrieved 30 July 2019.
  4. ↑ "Percy Main Metro station : Tyne and Wear Metro : TheTrams.co.uk". www.thetrams.co.uk. Retrieved 30 July 2019.
  5. ↑ "Work starts on a temporary Metro depot in North Tyneside | nexus.org.uk". www.nexus.org.uk. Retrieved 13 January 2021.
  6. ↑ "Bus depot raiders freed and urged to be 'good citizens' in 'upside down world'". 7 April 2020.
  7. ↑ "Church of St. John the Evangelist, Percy Main | Co-Curate". co-curate.ncl.ac.uk. Retrieved 30 July 2019.
  8. ↑ Historic England. "CHURCH OF ST JOHN THE EVANGELIST, North Tyneside (1355013)". National Heritage List for England . Retrieved 30 July 2019.
  9. ↑ "St John Percy - A Church Near You". www.achurchnearyou.com. Retrieved 30 July 2019.
  10. ↑ "Diocese of Newcastle | Church House". www.newcastle.anglican.org. Archived from the original on 6 November 2016. Retrieved 14 May 2017.
  11. ↑ "Percy Main, St. John's Street, Wesleyan Methodist Church | sitelines.newcastle.gov.uk". twsitelines.info. Retrieved 30 July 2019.
  12. ↑ Interactive, Enigma. "Percy Main Primary School | Percy Main | North Shields | North Tyneside". www.percymainprimary.org.uk. Retrieved 14 May 2017.
  13. ↑ Ofsted Communications Team (6 October 2020). "Find an inspection report and registered childcare". reports.ofsted.gov.uk. Archived from the original on 13 September 2018. Retrieved 13 January 2021.
  14. ↑ Ofsted Communications Team (6 October 2020). "Find an inspection report and registered childcare". reports.ofsted.gov.uk. Archived from the original on 13 September 2018. Retrieved 13 January 2021.
  15. ↑ "Redburn Park Medical Centre - the surgery address and telephone numbers".

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  1. ↑ Lawrence, Danny. Shiels to Shields, The History of a Tyneside Town. 2016
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