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by Delilahcat
Thu Jul 03, 2014 5:18 pm
Forum: Tyneside History Room
Topic: grocer in laygate
Replies: 42
Views: 20094

Re: grocer in laygate

The shop is still there on the corner of South Frederick and Temple St. Different owners of course.
by Delilahcat
Sat Mar 08, 2014 5:19 pm
Forum: Tyneside History Room
Topic: Help wanted to find photo
Replies: 11
Views: 15392

Re: Help wanted to find photo

Now found a photo from the book mentioned about Boldon. If yours is different passtheball would be interested in seeing it. Colin I have sent you a pm. Thanks to everyone.
by Delilahcat
Sun Jan 05, 2014 12:07 pm
Forum: Tyneside History Room
Topic: Old Cinemas
Replies: 38
Views: 52946

Re: Old Cinemas

Interesting to see the name of a family member George Rossiter. He had a Cabinet Makers business near where the Lord Clyde stands now. Originally my great grandfathers business. There are a lot of Cuthbert St scenes on the William Clavery DVD. Seen it on Facebook several times.
by Delilahcat
Mon May 27, 2013 6:04 pm
Forum: Tyneside History Room
Topic: 2nd hand Bookshop Near Market Place
Replies: 4
Views: 4171

Re: 2nd hand Bookshop Near Market Place

Have you been part of the Facebook discussion Captain ?
by Delilahcat
Tue Mar 26, 2013 2:57 pm
Forum: Tyneside History Room
Topic: WILSON STREET PHOTOGRAPHS
Replies: 2
Views: 2563

Re: WILSON STREET PHOTOGRAPHS

George Rossiter was a relative of mine and was a cabinet maker by trade following in the footsteps of our grandfather George William Rossiter. I don't know if you are on Facebook but there is a group called South Shields in Old photos which has many of the pictures you are interested in. There is al...
by Delilahcat
Thu Mar 21, 2013 6:03 pm
Forum: Tyneside History Room
Topic: South Shields Merchant Seamen losses WWII
Replies: 4
Views: 5654

Re: South Shields Merchant Seamen losses WWII

It is worth contacting Janis Blower who writes for the Gazette. I asked for information about a WW1 ship( and possibly a picture) that my uncle had been on which was sunk in 1918. She was unable to help but one of her readers came up with the good and a picture.
by Delilahcat
Thu Feb 28, 2013 9:29 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.

Me too Ralph. A house is more than bricks and mortar and for some people the memories mean a lot to them. Rather than take a hard line and demand older people move out of family sized houses the Council built some very nice bungalows at Biddick Hall and offered first refusal to the older people conc...
by Delilahcat
Thu Feb 28, 2013 5:13 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.

We are never going to live in a perfect world where there are no cheats and malingerers. Whatever system you have someone will always try to get one over on it ...unless you have no system at all. My worry is that when there are concerted campaigns to present all benefit claimants as shirkers and at...
by Delilahcat
Thu Feb 28, 2013 3:32 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.

My mother's eldest brother broke his back in an accident on the railways in 1933. He was an 'invalid' for the rest of his life. No compensation so his wife had to work as a cleaner then a barmaid to support him and their baby son. No adapted house just two rooms with an outside toilet and water supp...
by Delilahcat
Sat Feb 16, 2013 9:53 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 Delilahcat
Fri Feb 15, 2013 9:50 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.

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 Delilahcat
Thu Feb 14, 2013 12:32 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 grim...
by Delilahcat
Mon Feb 11, 2013 3:50 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.

Good story. My husband was a shipwright and worked at most of the Yards. Had a whole host of stories. The lad who claimed to be a pacifist and demanded to be excused working on a warship. The lad who had the top of his head sliced off 'like a boiled egg' when the corrugated metal shed roof hit him. ...
by Delilahcat
Mon Feb 11, 2013 3:45 pm
Forum: Tyneside History Room
Topic: Evans lemonade
Replies: 34
Views: 59544

Re: Evans lemonade

Corbett St? Think you may mean Corbridge St which was near John Forster's shop.
by Delilahcat
Tue Jan 22, 2013 10:43 am
Forum: Tyneside History Room
Topic: Can Anyone Remember the Name of this Pub
Replies: 4
Views: 3108

Re: Can Anyone Remember the Name of this Pub

Garricks Head is correct. Used to go there a lot in my youth.I have seen pictures of it on the South Shields in Old Photos group on Facebook.
by Delilahcat
Sat Jan 12, 2013 1:36 pm
Forum: Tyneside History Room
Topic: St George Road 1930's
Replies: 7
Views: 2957

Re: St George Road 1930's

There was an extensive bomb site on the corner of King George Rd and Moor Lane if I remember rightly. It eventually had houses built there.
by Delilahcat
Sun Dec 30, 2012 11:23 am
Forum: Tyneside History Room
Topic: no body home
Replies: 8
Views: 4496

Re: no body home

People have moved to Facebook. There is a really good site called South Shields in Old Photos. Moderation is better there too.
by Delilahcat
Tue Dec 18, 2012 1:19 pm
Forum: Tyneside History Room
Topic: Family History
Replies: 5
Views: 3904

Re: Family History

Orange St ran parallel to Laygate Lane roughly where the Laygate flats are now. It ended at Dixon St a little bit of which still exists opposite Trinity House. My great grandfather lived there at one time.
by Delilahcat
Wed Oct 03, 2012 7:51 pm
Forum: Tyneside History Room
Topic: brinkburn hut
Replies: 1
Views: 1951

Re: brinkburn hut

There was a big discussion on this subject on a Facebook Group called South Shields in Old Photos.
by Delilahcat
Fri Jul 13, 2012 2:29 pm
Forum: Tyneside History Room
Topic: Wright's biscuit factory
Replies: 17
Views: 24861

Re: Wright's biscuit factory

In the days when most workplaces were unionised Wrights was a non-union firm. The owners were very anti-union with the result that conditions and pay were worse than many of the other factories in the Shields area. My uncle George Lynn was an organiser for the USDAW union and had many a battle with ...