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Shiney Row is a village in Houghton-le-Spring, Tyne and Wear, England. One of the most notable people who was born in Shiney Row is Sir George Elliot, 1st Baronet , owner of the factory that produced the first Transatlantic telegraph cable.
It covered the majority of the abolished Houghton-le-Spring seat (those areas now within the metropolitan borough (now City) of Sunderland - including the communities of Houghton-le-Spring, Hetton-le-Hole, Penshaw, Shiney Row, and Herrington), together with the new town of Washington, which had previously been part of the abolished Chester-le ...
This is a list of electoral divisions and wards in the ceremonial county of Tyne and Wear in North East England.All changes since the re-organisation of local government following the passing of the Local Government Act 1972 are shown.
Robinson was born on 21 January 1908 in the mining village of Shiney Row, County Durham and worked as a collier before becoming a professional footballer. [2] In 1985, after retiring from work, he emigrated to Canada. Robinson died in Vancouver in 1991. [3]
At the time of the 1911 census, he was living in Eden Terrace, Shiney Row, with four older siblings and their parents, Elizabeth and William, a colliery labourer. [4] As a young man, he served in the Royal Navy, and during periods of leave played football for his village club, Shiney Row Swifts of the Wearside League. [5]
Hubbard has also directed a number of short films, including: Every second Sunday [2] with Simon Delaney, Craig Conway, Paul Reid, Jane Elizabeth Walsh, Amy Kirwan and Vanessa Fahy, and Jack, with Declan Reynolds, Rian Sheehy Kelly, Catherine Farrell and Hillary O’Neill.
In Shiney Row, there was an additional vacancy due to the death in office of Labour councillor Geoff Walker in January 2021. [4] The vacancy in the Washington South ward arose with the resignation in March 2021 of the council's only sitting Green Party councillor, Dom Armstrong, following disagreements with his party about trans rights issues. [5]
Originally, the road carried on through Shiney Row - but due to traffic-calming measures and the opening of a new link road past the new Biddick Woods Estate (which lies to the west of Shiney Row), the B1519 [12] uses the old A183.