TOM Hutchinson has published several books on the Wear Valley and this one rights a wrong. Batts Bank – his birthplace – is often overlooked because it was such a humble community of miners and labourers, particularly in comparison to the wealth of the Bishops of Durham who lorded it over them in Auckland Castle.
This is a collection of pictures of residents that are now gone and of the streets that they lived in which also are now gone.
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