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Picture source: Russell Judge

The Cooperage was situated on Durham Road. This pub was originally known as The Wheatsheaf. A pub has stood on the site since the 1830s, with the current building from 1880. The Cooperage closed 31Jan 2014 and converted to a mini-supermarket.

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Name	Dates	Comments
Robert Wilkinson	1948/1956	I was born upstairs in this pub. At the time my parents Rose & Harry Wilkinson ran the pub. It had a blue Star then and was a Newcastle Breweries pub catering to the miners.