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Viciously steep slopes known locally as "The Bankies".
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Overlooking Felling Metro, this building has no signposts but people locally seem to regard it as a telephone exchange.
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Dist:0.3km<br/>Car No 4053
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Dist:0.3km<br/>Car No 4066
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Dist:0.3km<br/>Car No 4007
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Dist:0.3km<br/>Car No 4072 is eastbound.
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Dist:0.3km<br/>Car No 4077
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Dist:0.3km<br/>Night time view of the station featured in the First Geograph for this square, from a similar position to that image.
©Stephen Sweeney
Dist:0.3km<br/>Taken from Carlisle Street. The church web site has a good current description of Felling and its community http://christchurchfelling.org/about/the-felling Locals still refer to the area as 'The Felling' as it originated as a built up area in eastward expansion of Gateshead when many trees were felled http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Felling,_Tyne_and_Wear
©Andrew Curtis
Dist:0.3km<br/>Parish Church of Felling, built in 1866 by Austin and Johnson; north aisle and vestry 1903 by J. Potts and Son http://www.twsitelines.info/siteline.nsf/SMR/D265AC6F342EA6EA802576AF003E92E2?opendocument
©Andrew Curtis
Dist:0.4km<br/>Before A Roads and the like, this was the main passage to Sunderland.
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Dist:0.4km<br/>Car No 4007
©Dr Neil Clifton
Dist:0.4km<br/>Car 4045 prepares to leave Felling with a service for Bankfoot via Newcastle Central.
©Dr Neil Clifton
Dist:0.4km<br/>A picture of Felling Metro station, on the Tyne and Wear Metro system. The station also has lines that travel past it for main line services, but the trains do not stop here.
©Steve McShane
Dist:0.4km<br/>Hardly changed since 1982 [[1595700]], although now in colour. Car number 4069. The existing brick round tower which houses the air shaft to John Pit of Felling Colliery http://www.lner.info/forums/download/file.php?id=1865&mode=view is just visible to the right in the trees. 92 men and boys were killed in an explosion here in 1812. The youngest was 7 years old http://www.dmm.org.uk/names/n1812-01.htm http://www.healeyhero.co.uk/rescue/pits/felling.htm
©Andrew Curtis

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