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by Jarrow Pete
Fri Apr 19, 2013 12:05 am
Forum: Tyneside History Room
Topic: Where did you hang out?
Replies: 76
Views: 29632

Re: Where did you hang out?

Cleadon Hills, Marsden Quarry, the ponds and old railway tack at the limestone quarry in Marsden and of course Marsden beach especially the velvet beds. We used to rake around the old tip next to Trow rocks after school sometimes. Who needed skate parks, playgrounds, theme parks and the like when w...
by Jarrow Pete
Wed Feb 20, 2013 11:06 pm
Forum: Tyneside History Room
Topic: St. Hilda's School
Replies: 7
Views: 3326

Re: St. Hilda's School

The St. Hilda's School I understand was the only school actually on the Waterloo Vale site, I thought that the British Union School was on Garden Lane, but maybe I am wrong, whatever is the case it is the former that a photograph/s are so hard to find. One thing though my friend that you may be abl...
by Jarrow Pete
Tue Feb 19, 2013 9:54 pm
Forum: Tyneside History Room
Topic: South Shields folk working in the yards Narrow escapes.
Replies: 30
Views: 9537

Re: South Shields folk working in the yards Narrow escapes.

First off apologies to Cairngormer for distracting from his enjoyable stories of the Yards. I still maintain that the ship yard workers did not do themselves justice by allowing successive goverments to close them down. I served a 5 year apprenticeship down the pits, before leaving in 1969 and getti...
by Jarrow Pete
Sun Feb 17, 2013 11:19 pm
Forum: Tyneside History Room
Topic: South Shields folk working in the yards Narrow escapes.
Replies: 30
Views: 9537

Re: South Shields folk working in the yards Narrow escapes.

Having worked in the shipyards from my apprenticeship i will try to take some heat out of the argument, yes there was demarcation, as it was the case in every industry, it was seen as a way of protecting jobs for different unions, bosses were dealing with very large unions at the time and it was ju...
by Jarrow Pete
Sun Feb 17, 2013 12:38 am
Forum: Tyneside History Room
Topic: South Shields folk working in the yards Narrow escapes.
Replies: 30
Views: 9537

Re: South Shields folk working in the yards Narrow escapes.

' What years did you work in the yards? Same ones as you Pete :D Trouble with you is that it is all or nothing...everyone is lazy everyone's a skiver. Life isn't like that. I know about the yards because my husband spent his working life there and I lived in a community where most men worked there....
by Jarrow Pete
Fri Feb 15, 2013 10:46 pm
Forum: Tyneside History Room
Topic: South Shields folk working in the yards Narrow escapes.
Replies: 30
Views: 9537

Re: South Shields folk working in the yards Narrow escapes.

And straight out of the traps comes Pete always ready to put the boot into the working man/ woman and repeat tall tales he has been told. I am sure there were people who skived as there are in every walk of life but to suggest they caused the demise of the British shipbuilding industry is ludicrous...
by Jarrow Pete
Thu Feb 14, 2013 10:51 pm
Forum: Tyneside History Room
Topic: South Shields folk working in the yards Narrow escapes.
Replies: 30
Views: 9537

Re: South Shields folk working in the yards Narrow escapes.

Remember my husband talking about those incidents. One of his workmates fell off the staging into the dock bottom and was badly hurt. The story going round was he felt a bad turn coming on and threw himself off the staging as you got more sick pay for industrial injuries. Just an example of the gri...
by Jarrow Pete
Tue Jan 22, 2013 5:46 am
Forum: Tyneside History Room
Topic: Can Anyone Remember the Name of this Pub
Replies: 4
Views: 3109

Re: Can Anyone Remember the Name of this Pub

Was it the Garricks Head,definetly not the Havelock,thought that was on other side of King Street near where the recently demolished one was.Black and Grey was on opposite corner near the Golden Lion.
by Jarrow Pete
Sat Jan 12, 2013 1:09 am
Forum: Tyneside History Room
Topic: St George Road 1930's
Replies: 7
Views: 2957

Re: St George Road 1930's

There was a lot of bomb damage done to King George Road and the surrounding area during a raid 9th April 1941. Plenty of photos of the bomb damage on the link above, photos taken by Amy Celia Flagg 10th April 1941. My apologies for not looking at the posted photos in full. Cannot remember seeing an...
by Jarrow Pete
Fri Jan 11, 2013 2:13 pm
Forum: Tyneside History Room
Topic: St George Road 1930's
Replies: 7
Views: 2957

Re: St George Road 1930's

I meant King George Road, sorry :oops: Thanks for the link to the pictures, it looks like the street took a few hits during the air raids,so maybe their house was one of the unlucky ones. The photos are of the demolition of the estate in the last couple of years, to the best of my knowledge no bomb...
by Jarrow Pete
Fri Jan 04, 2013 9:55 pm
Forum: Tyneside History Room
Topic: Laygate
Replies: 8
Views: 3570

Re: Laygate

I was born above Halls fish and chip shop at 33 Laygate Lane where my Mam lived with her Aunt while Dad was away with the Royal Navy. Our Doctors were in Regent Road at the corner with Laygate Lane, Doctors were Lyons, OLeary and Eustace,am still with their practise at Trinity health centre Laygate.
by Jarrow Pete
Sun Sep 23, 2012 3:43 am
Forum: Tyneside History Room
Topic: remember these sweets when you were a kid?
Replies: 240
Views: 665643

Re: remember these sweets when you were a kid?

siam sam wrote:
Jarrow Pete wrote:When lemonade was still rationed used to put it in a bottle and make our own drinks, Can also remember my mothers ginger beer plant we got our ginger beer drinks from.
i cant remember lemonade being on ration? pete.
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I thought about 1951 it was rationed, along with sweets.
by Jarrow Pete
Sat Sep 22, 2012 11:32 pm
Forum: Tyneside History Room
Topic: remember these sweets when you were a kid?
Replies: 240
Views: 665643

Re: remember these sweets when you were a kid?

When lemonade was still rationed used to put it in a bottle and make our own drinks, Can also remember my mothers ginger beer plant we got our ginger beer drinks from.
by Jarrow Pete
Wed Jul 11, 2012 4:01 pm
Forum: Tyneside History Room
Topic: sanatorium at cleadon
Replies: 18
Views: 7736

Re: sanatorium at cleadon

isomache wrote:just down from the entrance of the sanitorium back in 1971 was the park avenue shops, the only two i remember were the dairy, and ? carricks the paper shop
Went past Park Avenue today and was surprised to see the shops have been demolished.
by Jarrow Pete
Sat Mar 03, 2012 9:58 pm
Forum: Tyneside History Room
Topic: The big freeze
Replies: 6
Views: 3291

Re: The big freeze

Can remember the hard winter we had in 1963,it was the very cold temperatures that were the problem.We had one really heavy snow shower that froze and lay on the ground for months,I wore my pit boots for walking on the ice until it thawed.
by Jarrow Pete
Fri Feb 03, 2012 10:07 pm
Forum: Tyneside History Room
Topic: grocer in laygate
Replies: 42
Views: 20098

Re: grocer in laygate

Hi,does anyone know of a Grocer & Provision Merchants that was in Laygate. My great grandfathers birth certificate is held together by some tape.On it is written John T Martin,Grocer & Provision Merchant,Laygate,South Shields.Noted for Irish Roll Bacon. Thanks :D John T Martin was at number...
by Jarrow Pete
Mon Dec 05, 2011 12:43 am
Forum: Tyneside History Room
Topic: golden slipper
Replies: 27
Views: 10162

Re: golden slipper

callummal wrote:yes jarrow pete yous`t to do work for SICO [SPD [REMEMBER THE BIG FIRE] AND ALSO WARDLES timber merchants also shop fronts in dean rd
Watched the SPD fire flames from Marsden Quarry,biggest fire since the war it was said.
by Jarrow Pete
Sun Nov 27, 2011 9:21 pm
Forum: Tyneside History Room
Topic: golden slipper
Replies: 27
Views: 10162

Re: golden slipper

remember Alf Josephs the manager is he still alive used to go there saturday and sunday nights and parked my lambretta in the work shop where i worked accross the road in the mecca bingo car park for Walter May as a apprentice joiner my grandmother lived at 96 dean road family name Gunn my great gr...
by Jarrow Pete
Sat Nov 19, 2011 6:26 pm
Forum: North East Lost Friends & Relatives Board
Topic: Victoria Crawford
Replies: 8
Views: 2772

Re: Victoria Crawford

I meantioned this to friends of mine who knew the two sisters and their brother well from those days but they couldnt tell me what happened to them as they lost touch. Somewhere along the line it happens to us all Pilot. As we get older we sit and wonder what happened to certain people who had an i...
by Jarrow Pete
Sun Oct 23, 2011 10:06 pm
Forum: Tyneside History Room
Topic: Brains v Brawn
Replies: 37
Views: 9367

Re: Brains v Brawn

geordielass wrote:thanks stottie i enjoyed reading it, my late husband used to work down westoe & whitburn as a fitter in the 60s
Liz there was a death in the gazette this week,Albert Moyse 68 years old. He was the lad who started at Whitburn same time as Stan did.