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This is not Robinson Terrace, Columbia. It is Station Road, Usworth looking towards Front Street, New Washington (Concord) with the white building on the right the former King's Cinema. To the immediate right of the Bus Stop is the former Edith Avenue. I lived in this area at the time of the photograph so recognise the area well.

I agree, I live near Robinson Tce and it doesn't look like the same place.

Hmm. It's a lot different now! I'm guessing that where the open field is, is where the current A1 route travels?

The photographer is standing in what is now, the middle of the North end of the Southbound car park at Birtley services. Looking over Malley's Hole (an old pit) to Harraton Colliery on the left. The Magnesium Limestone Escarpment (A Heugh) at Heugh Hall (or what the new generation prefer to call Old Quarrington) sticks out like a sore thumb on the horizon.

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I'm an 'outsider' and live in Seaton Delaval, Northumberland. I've travelled through Washington on many occasions via public transport (Wreckenton to Sunderlaand) and can still vision the scenes you've posted onto these pages. Washington's a fascinating mix of old mining villages with their unique layouts, joined together by newer housing and open green space.

This photograph is mid 1970s (not 60s) as the bus is in Northern General's National Bus Company poppy red livery with white fleetnames and the early white "double arrow" symbol.