It probably dates from the early 1930s, but this is difficult to confirm, as many of the Wallsend Council records were sent for paper salvage during the Second World War.

The garage replaced the earlier corporation stables on that site.

In 1983 the buildings were taken down, and the site has since been reoccupied.

Running across the site is Portugal Place, something of a puzzle locally, as no explanation for its name can be found.

In the 18th century it was the route of the waggonway from Bigges Main, a village now lost beneath the golf course.

The colliery, a little to the north, was flooded out in 1857, but the waggonway continued to be used until 1885, according to William Richardson's "History of the Parish of Wallsend".

Richardson's history does not cover this part of the town in great detail, but much of the land would have belonged to Carville Hall.

The Hall stood at the end of a driveway, which would later become the Avenue, and Warwick Road joined it to the town centre early in the century.

The road may have been named after John Warwick, a lead smelter and member of the first Wallsend Local Board in the 1890s.

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