Author: Peter Witham

Miner’s Life 12

Hetton Working Men’s Club (The Big Club). This building was opened in 1911 and its
gardens housed a bandstand, a bowling green and the Great War Memorial. It was burnt down due to an electrical fault in 1957 then rebuilt in the same location. It still functions today, although with a greatly reduced membership.

St Nicholas’ Church, Hetton from the south. Unfortunately now a ruin, it was built in 1901 replacing a chapel-of-ease built to serve the district which was now made up of the parishes of Hetton, Lyons and Eppleton and erected at Hetton in 1831,