Raglan Place to Budle Street

The story begins. Tommy Moran was born at number 7, Raglan Place, Elswick, in Newcastle`s old west end, on the 12th of December 1900. Parents, John and Mary Ann, were both originally from the west of Ireland . At that time, John was working as a driller-hand in the shipyards. The 1911 census finds the Moran family living a few streets away from Raglan Place, on Bell Terrace. Bell Terrace was demolished  to make way for the new Cruddas Park high rise flats, below (Bell Terrace would have stood mid-ground) Note, St Michael`s RC church, top right.

 

 

 

Cruddas Park high rise flats

 

 

Budle Street, Elswick (below) circa 1960.  The pre-marital home of Tommy`s wife Mary Ann Livingstone.  Nineteen year old, Apprentice Millwright Tommy, married Mary Ann Livingstone at St. Michaels RC  Church, in July 1920. Budle Street became the couple`s marital home. The couple were still living at 22, Budle street in 1933.

 

 

 

 

Budle Street, Elswick