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My Ryhope
By Mel Robson |
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Introduction Welcome to my village, it's not an historical place, although traces of prehistoric man were said to be found at "The Hope" on Tunstall Hills and flint tools were found on the cliff tops, its name is said to be traceable to Saxon times, being recorded as "Refhoppa", "Reshop" and Riopp, it is believed that the name meant 'rough hope or valley'. By the 11th century it was a small farming community of about 150 people, while not in the Dooms Day Book it is mentioned in both the Boldon Book of Bishop Pudsley in 1183, and also in the survey of Bishop Hatfield in 1380, it continued as a small farming community right up to the middle of the 19th century. Limestone was quarried nearby to build the farms, houses and stone walls, some still seen today. Now with a population of approximately 10000 people it has been absorbed into the City of Sunderland as were a lot of other villages around here i.e. Silksworth, Whitburn and lately Houghton le Spring and Washington to name just a few. The big change came to Ryhope when Ryhope colliery was founded in 1856.
If any Ex Pat's out there would like a picture taken of where
they were born or of some other special place in their lives ( that's if its still standing) I will gladly do this, please contact me
at
MY-RYHOPE
I will forward the photo's by email attachment in .jpg format, also if anyone out there has old pictures of Ryhope I would be very grateful of them. After I have taken a copy for myself I will forward them on to the Ryhope Heritage Group who now have Thousands of old photo's of Ryhope and the people of Ryhope, the pictures of old Ryhope are supplied by kind permission by them, others to follow. If you prefer to send them by post please send to Mel Robson @ Unfortunately I am unable to return them unless return postage is supplied. thank you . I would also like to thank the Ryhope Community Association, Ryhope Heritage Group, J N Pace and his Book on "Ryhope in old picture postcards", J N Pace and Andrew Clark with their book " Ryhope and Silksworth" both of these books and others can be bought from the Ryhope Heritage c/o Community Centre Ryhope, also the "Colliery" and "Village" Post Offices in Ryhope. Finally I hope you enjoy the rest of this site as much as I had in making it.
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