Looking Back at Belvedere House
It is referred to in an advert of March 22, 1806, as a new erected capital dwelling house, with large garden, vinery and peach house.
About that time it was owned by Peregrine Henzell, a descendant of Huguenot refugees who came to Tyneside to set up a glass industry. Mr Henzell left it to his daughter Mary in 1824, and she continued in residence until the early 1850s.
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Hide AdWilliam Boutland Wilkinson had the house from the 1870s. He died in 1902 when it became a doctor’s surgery.
On the left of the picture is Whitley House and the right shows the Coliseum Cinema.
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