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Philadelphia
Location within Tyne and Wear
OS grid reference NZ333522
Metropolitan borough
Metropolitan county
Region
Country England
Sovereign state United Kingdom
Post town HOUGHTON LE SPRING
Postcode district DH4
Dialling code 0191
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Tyne and Wear
54°51′54″N1°29′00″W / 54.865°N 1.4833°W / 54.865; -1.4833

Philadelphia is a village in the City of Sunderland, England. [1] It lies on the A182 road between Newbottle and Shiney Row. It is named after the American city of Philadelphia. [2] [3]

History

What may have started as a single farm, expanded substantially by the installing of 2 pits named: 'Margret' or 'Peggy', sunk in the 18th c.; and 'Dorethea' or 'Dolly', sunk in the 1810s. by 1821 the population had risen to 2,306. [4] In 1816 the town was described by Robert Surtees, as follows:

A little to the North of Newbottle, below the brow of the hill, lies Philadelphia-Row, one of those settlements provided by the coal-owners for their workmen, who live here as a distinct class in society, almost entirely separated from the agricultural part of the community. These colonies form at every point the strongest contrast to the varied and picturesque appearance of the genuine village—consisting, in general, of long uniform lines of low brick buildings, running along each side of a public road, black with coal-dust.

—  Robert Surtees, The history and antiquities of the County Palatine of Durham (1816) [4] [5]

Philadelphia was the place of the 1815 Philadelphia train accident, the explosion of the boiler of an early steam locomotive. The number of deaths (16, other sources state 13) was the highest in a railway accident until 1842. [6] [7]

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References

  1. ↑ "Map and Aerial View of Philadelphia, Tyne and Wear | Co-Curate".
  2. ↑ "Philadelphia, Tyne and Wear | Co-Curate". co-curate.ncl.ac.uk. Retrieved 17 December 2024.
  3. ↑ Do, Go Eat (20 March 2021). "8 places with American names in northeast England | Go Eat Do". go-eat-do.com. Retrieved 17 December 2024.
  4. 1 2 Green, Adrian (2010). "Houses and Landscape in Early Industrial County Durham". In Faulkner, Tom E.; Berry, Helen; Gregory, Jeremy (eds.). Northern Landscapes: Representations and Realities of North-East England. Boydell & Brewer. ISBN   978-1-84383-541-7 . Retrieved 3 May 2024.
  5. ↑ Surtees, Robert (1816–40). The history and antiquities of the County Palatine of Durham (1908 ed.). Sunderland: Hills and Company. p. 186. Retrieved 3 May 2024.
  6. ↑ Hewison, Christian H. (1983). "Chapter 2: From the Beginning to 1850". Locomotive Boiler Explosions. David and Charles. p. 26. ISBN   0-7153-8305-1.
  7. ↑ Hoorelbeke, Pol (10 May 2021). "4. Technological Risks". Process Safety: An Engineering Discipline. p. 148. ISBN   978-3-11-063213-2.


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