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by Barney
Sun Apr 19, 2015 4:20 pm
Forum: Tyneside History Room
Topic: South Shields 1996
Replies: 2
Views: 13287

Re: South Shields 1996

And another one from the 1950's about King Street and the Market. This was before the concrete monstrosities were built. Should be some good memory jerkers here! :D https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=6dqFk0zvL2Q Incidentally, the commentary is annotated at the bottom, but the wording being shown is hil...
by Barney
Sun Apr 19, 2015 4:01 pm
Forum: Tyneside History Room
Topic: South Shields 1996
Replies: 2
Views: 13287

South Shields 1996

Interestingly, saw this vid on Youtube, and thought I'd share it. It's probably been on here before, but I hadn't seen it. https://youtu.be/hwYzZ04W4II Some of the jumps are difficult to fathom - Mile End road to Dean Road - but still interesting to see. Be interesting to see these streets now. Ques...
by Barney
Sun Apr 12, 2015 4:33 pm
Forum: Tyneside History Room
Topic: Market Pubs
Replies: 106
Views: 269988

Re: Market Pubs

Used to be there were 21 pubs between the Ferry and the sea front. As a 21st birthday pub crawl, you would have a drink - probably not a pint, more likely a short, in each one, until the group got to the beach, and the birthday boy was thrown in the water!!

Good times!
by Barney
Sun Apr 12, 2015 4:31 pm
Forum: Tyneside History Room
Topic: Market Pubs
Replies: 106
Views: 269988

Re: Market Pubs

Jeez, I remember Viv well. He was a good friend of Keith Tilly, who used to run the Duster when I worked there - 1976-1980. Viv used to come in to the offie and shout along the counter at me "Hey, Paulie! You gonna let me in or what?" Then he'd smile sweetly until I let him through into th...
by Barney
Thu Dec 04, 2014 2:43 am
Forum: Tyneside History Room
Topic: Scotts the Coalman
Replies: 23
Views: 12877

Re: Re:

Yup, I remember Arthur Scott well. He used to deliver coal to our house before we got the gas central heating. He lived on Mortimer Road - number 76. I know as I used to be close to his daughter, Mavis. Nice lass, she was. Ah, them was the days!! Still is and It was 214 Mortimer rd Mavis and Angela...
by Barney
Thu Dec 04, 2014 2:26 am
Forum: Tyneside History Room
Topic: Grammar School
Replies: 12
Views: 6539

Re: Grammar School

LOL! I wonder what that bloke is doing amid the rafters on the uncovered roof of the school.

These buildings must have been knocked down shortly after this pic - were they bombed, does anyone know?
by Barney
Fri Apr 12, 2013 10:32 pm
Forum: Tyneside History Room
Topic: Where did you hang out?
Replies: 76
Views: 29632

Re: Where did you hang out?

Ha ha! We used to *acquire* mars bars n stuff outta Roses, but Barry Swainston was too crafty - had it all behind glass! Aye, montymart, it use to be thruppence (3 OLD pennies) on the bus each way for a kid downtown. Or we`d cycle over to the pedestrian tunnel in Hell - I mean - Jarrow, and go under...
by Barney
Thu Feb 21, 2013 1:23 am
Forum: Tyneside History Room
Topic: Harton Colliery School.
Replies: 1
Views: 1999

Re: Harton Colliery School.

Does anyone have any knowledge of a photograph please of Harton Colliery School ? This used to be on Harton Lane, and was opposite to the entrance to Loudon Street, it was apparently demolished during the early 1930's when the new council houses were built that replaced Double Row, Quality Row etc....
by Barney
Mon Feb 18, 2013 5:34 pm
Forum: Tyneside History Room
Topic: Where did you hang out?
Replies: 76
Views: 29632

Re: Where did you hang out?

Barney we all used to fight the Robinsons, Ian, Jimmy and Janet that was fun. Hi martymont! It was so strange there - half the time we were all friends, and half the time we were all fighting!! :lol: :lol: :lol: And we all used to run away from Robert Steadman, too! Remember him? And poor old Terry...
by Barney
Fri Feb 15, 2013 7:15 pm
Forum: Tyneside History Room
Topic: Where did you hang out?
Replies: 76
Views: 29632

Re: Where did you hang out?

Where did I hang out? Gawd - where to start!!! I lived mostly in Whiteleas - our house was one end of the block in the middle of Gainsborough, and Montymart's was the other end of the block. In the early days, there were no houses behind us, and we could see right over to Cleadon Hills. We used to h...
by Barney
Fri Feb 15, 2013 6:44 pm
Forum: Tyneside History Room
Topic: Laygate
Replies: 8
Views: 3570

Re: Laygate

Most of those are a bit before my time, but good to see.
by Barney
Sun Jan 20, 2013 6:14 am
Forum: South Shields Boys High School
Topic: hello boys
Replies: 22
Views: 38232

Re: Ah - good ol' Room 4

Ha-ha! I don't think I got the years wrong, Sandyman. I didn't start at the GTSB until the 3rd form, having past the 13+, not the 11+. That's what the 3S/4S/5S forms were before the place went comprehensive. So, if you follow the maths, I actually did 3 years in the 6th form. I remember it well, alt...
by Barney
Wed Nov 09, 2011 7:52 pm
Forum: Tyneside History Room
Topic: Secret South Shields
Replies: 80
Views: 253771

Re: Secret South Shields

Hi martymont. I remember a young boy called Stephen was killed by a bus just outside of our house - that would have been 1962 or 1963. Also, one of the Newsome brothers was killed, too, either on Whiteleas Way or Gainsborough. Mickey Sullivan was knocked down by St. Oswald's, too, and two young sist...
by Barney
Wed Nov 09, 2011 4:38 pm
Forum: Tyneside History Room
Topic: Secret South Shields
Replies: 80
Views: 253771

Re: Secret South Shields

I remember a kid getting knocked down on the corner of Gainsborough and Whiteleas Way, and the ambulance and police were called from that police box. Most people didn't have their own phones - only rich and posh folk!! Many's the time we were chased by cops or adults for messing about with it, or e...
by Barney
Sat Apr 09, 2011 9:29 pm
Forum: Tyneside History Room
Topic: Wright's biscuit factory
Replies: 17
Views: 24861

Re: Wright's biscuit factory

I have written on this memory before. We used to sneak around the back of Wright's, along the railway line to Tyne Dock, past the back of the signal box. If the guy there saw you, he'd chase you away. [-X We would climb over the back fence, over the barbed wire, onto the roof of some outhouses at th...
by Barney
Sun Apr 03, 2011 6:09 am
Forum: Tyneside History Room
Topic: boldon lane
Replies: 25
Views: 9624

Re: boldon lane

Remember Boldon Lane well. Minchies was there, and STARS, but that was later. Used to get chain from Spraggon's to tie your bike up. Used to be a greengrocer there - Kennedy's - in an old, converted church. There was a very popular chinese takeaway near the Colliery, too. And a paint/wallpaper shop ...
by Barney
Sun Apr 03, 2011 5:53 am
Forum: Tyneside History Room
Topic: Douggy Vaults
Replies: 6
Views: 2578

Re: Douggy Vaults

Remember the Douggie well, but then, you'd know that, montymart! :wink:

I had my first illicit drink in the pub at the end of Stephenson Street - Cyprus, wasn't it?
Was 14 at the time. Then we graduated to the Adam & Eve.
by Barney
Sun Apr 03, 2011 5:37 am
Forum: Tyneside History Room
Topic: Derby Street Baths
Replies: 75
Views: 144077

Re: Derby Street Baths

Used to go to Derby Street Baths regularly. Lots of fun times.

Wasn't the church Glebe Methodist Church or something like that?

Just watching Elton John on Saturday Night Live. What a scream!!!
by Barney
Sun Oct 24, 2010 8:55 pm
Forum: Tyneside History Room
Topic: Frederick St.
Replies: 66
Views: 19179

Re: Frederick St.

Someone should have a natter with Barry Swainston, who has the tobacco and sweet shop in Whiteleas. His dad used to have the shop in Laygate just at the end of Frederick Street, and Barry used to work there in the 60's & 70's, before opening the shop in Whiteleas, so he would have some good info...
by Barney
Sun Oct 24, 2010 4:53 pm
Forum: Tyneside History Room
Topic: Marsden Street
Replies: 62
Views: 64939

Re: Marsden Street

some one mentiond a piano teacher named Ockelford,lasted about 5 lessons there she was brutal with an ebony ruler for any wrong note. Yeah, that was Gertrude Ockleford. My sister lasted a few years (5, I think) with her. She was certainly a stickler for form, by all accounts. "Keep those wrist...