Ellison Street

Cuthbert Ellison (1783-1860), MP for Gateshead and a great benefactor to the town, was commemorated in this street. The houses were built in 1830 to provide good class houses of three stories and with half basements. However, they eventually became tenemented and were demolished during the 1950s. Mrs Jackson was one of the many female shopkeepers in Gateshead who ran a small shop, probably from the doorway of her home.