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Joseph Harrison
Joseph Harrison (1876-1954) lived at Seaton and worked on the Tanfield Railway. In 1891 he was the switch lad at the bottom of Baker's Bank and lived as a boarder with Ed Shotton, platelayer, at the railway cottage, Fugar Bar. Joe was a prominent member of Sunniside Methodist Chapel and could spin a good yarn, especially to the young folk. His wife Betty (nee Wallace), baked tasty teacakes and sold them in her sweet shop at Seaton in the 1930s.