Etterby Scaur & West Walls

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Looking towards Etterby Scaur and Stanwix in the background (1904). Most of the big houses on the Scaur were built between 1850 and 1880. The area was known as Etterby Scaur in 1794. Stanwix Church is in the background and the houses to the right are Cavendish Terrace and St, Georges Crescent.


Etterby itself was named after Etardaby in 1246, he was of french or german extraction. It only became part of the city in 1912.




Another view looking up the Scaur towards Austin Friars School. Built in 1892 as a girls school for the Order of the Sacred Heart, the school moved to Newcastle in 1903. It then became a Reformatory for catholic boys run by the Community of the Presentation Brothers of Cork from 1903-1923, it was known as the Chadwick Memorial Industrial School.

In 1925 it became an orphanage run by The Poor Sisters of Nazareth (Nazareth House) until it was sold in 1951 to The Augustinian Friars to become Austin Friars School.

A view along West Walls, a view unchanged today. The city walls ran from here to the castle along East & West Tower St, along the west side of Lowther St and up to the Citadels and back to West Walls.