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Bedlington Iron (and locomotive) Works occupied that site. It was later taken over as housing for the increasing population of miners in Bebside and became known as Bebside Furnace. You can read a short history here: https://www.gracesguide.co.uk/Bedlington_Ironworks and there are some photos in the gallery of the bridge, Dene House and Clock House.

@Sloopy .Dog - there was. This is the front cover of a book by Evan Martin :- Evan Martin, and his father, Stephen B. Martin, have published many booklets on Bedlington. The majority of the booklets contain old photos, with some info, of the town and a couple, like the one on the Iron Works (46 pages - including a few photos/images) deal with the one specific topic. These are some of their booklets :- If you use the Search bar at the top right of the page and input "Evan Martin" you will be returned loads of postings that include extracts from the Martin books. Without the quotes you would get everything that had the single words Evan and Martin included in the posting.