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- Sun Jul 22, 2012 3:50 am
- Forum: Tyneside History Room
- Topic: ST VINCENT ST GHOST
- Replies: 70
- Views: 23907
Re: ST VINCENT ST GHOST
spookiest house i have been in grandmothers house edith street i think even she was scared of it.
- Thu Jul 12, 2012 3:02 am
- Forum: Tyneside History Room
- Topic: sanatorium at cleadon
- Replies: 18
- Views: 7736
Re: sanatorium at cleadon
Park avenue shops were demolished i think earlier this year to make way for new houses, end of a era got my first paper round there 66 papers in the morning, ashgrove, park ave, laburnam, the crescent etc, and three papers at night sanitorium, girls high school [think now its a newly built school to...
- Wed Jul 11, 2012 2:22 am
- Forum: Tyneside History Room
- Topic: sanatorium at cleadon
- Replies: 18
- Views: 7736
Re: sanatorium at cleadon
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
- Thu Mar 29, 2012 3:56 am
- Forum: Tyneside History Room
- Topic: sanatorium at cleadon
- Replies: 18
- Views: 7736
Re: sanatorium at cleadon
the gatehouse is the house that is on the main pathway through the park now a private house
- Sat Mar 24, 2012 5:04 am
- Forum: Tyneside History Room
- Topic: Best tv themes as a kid in the 60s
- Replies: 1
- Views: 1775
Re: Best tv themes as a kid in the 60s
the flashing blade, the avengers
- Wed Nov 02, 2011 3:10 am
- Forum: Cleadon Park School
- Topic: teachers? the good the bad the ugly
- Replies: 11
- Views: 17188
Re: teachers? the good the bad the ugly
just going through old teachers at cleadon park, mr thornton as well as the trick with the slipper he used to put a pencil in between each finger of one hand and squeeze the fingers together, another one was he would make you stand on a chair and if you had sideboards would lift you up by them and m...
- Thu Oct 27, 2011 1:23 am
- Forum: Tyneside History Room
- Topic: Swans Training School
- Replies: 3
- Views: 2388
Re: Swans Training School
remember it well served my time as a welder back in 75. rember the bone yard after a thursday night out. they filmed some episodes of when the boat comes in outside and inside the pub down the bottom of the bank ? the neptune, also rember the pies was there for a year, started out 9 stone after a ye...
- Wed Oct 26, 2011 3:49 am
- Forum: Tyneside History Room
- Topic: sanatorium at cleadon
- Replies: 18
- Views: 7736
Re: sanatorium at cleadon
when i was a kid used to deliver papers for a paper shop on the corner of park avenue ( ? back in 73). The owner on a sunday would get me to go up to the sanitorium to at cleadon park to sell papers to the patients in there. I guess they were TB patients back then, the patients would wait for me com...
- Wed Oct 26, 2011 3:02 am
- Forum: Tyneside History Room
- Topic: pub name
- Replies: 26
- Views: 8669
Re: pub name
was ripons the sports shop not opposite the town hall next door to the brittania inn. sure i used to go there to buy thick lengths of elastic to make catapults when i was a kid.
- Mon May 11, 2009 2:06 pm
- Forum: Cleadon Park School
- Topic: cleadon Park
- Replies: 14
- Views: 42959
Re: cleadon Park
sorry about the delay have seen mr pyle never changed, also mr pippet he is a bit of a music buff. i might be sad here: mr bruce (wee jab) used to take us to derby street baths for swimming once a week on the bus (local transport and had to pay) he borrowed 4 pence (old money) off me never got it ba...
- Mon Apr 20, 2009 7:35 pm
- Forum: South Shields General Notice Board
- Topic: BEYOND THE NETTY DOOR
- Replies: 6
- Views: 5902
Re: BEYOND THE NETTY DOOR
can relate to edith street. in mid sixties when only a boy my grandmother used to live up there. used to visit with my old man every saturday. she lived in a ground floor flat and the atmosphere i have never forgotten it was so oppresive although my grandmother was a nice person. she once looked aft...
- Mon Apr 20, 2009 7:15 pm
- Forum: South Shields General Notice Board
- Topic: south shields piers and groyne
- Replies: 2
- Views: 2209
south shields piers and groyne
could someone tell me the reason for one lighthouse shining a white light and one a red light,
and what was the purpose of the groyne. be most grateful
and what was the purpose of the groyne. be most grateful
- Sun Dec 21, 2008 12:24 pm
- Forum: South Shields General Notice Board
- Topic: MARGARET THATCHER DIES ON STAGE
- Replies: 8
- Views: 2262
Re: MARGARET THATCHER DIES ON STAGE
aye there will be a massive turn up at her funeral from the north east just to make sure she is dead. As one polititian said "she was just misunderstood" b**locks
- Thu Nov 27, 2008 8:43 pm
- Forum: South Shields General Notice Board
- Topic: oldest pub in south shields
- Replies: 13
- Views: 6100
oldest pub in south shields
could anyone tell me what the oldest pub still in use in shields is cheeeeeeeeers
- Sat Dec 08, 2007 1:17 pm
- Forum: South Shields General Notice Board
- Topic: Covent Gardens
- Replies: 6
- Views: 1472
Re: Covent Gardens
do they still have the different eating places in covent garden
- Tue Nov 27, 2007 1:58 pm
- Forum: Cleadon Park School
- Topic: cleadon Park
- Replies: 14
- Views: 42959
Re: cleadon Park
hello toxic avenger think it was all closed late 70s developed early eighties yep there is very little left behind the front
- Mon Nov 26, 2007 5:15 pm
- Forum: South Shields General Notice Board
- Topic: Favourite thing about South Shields!!
- Replies: 33
- Views: 5083
Re: Favourite thing about South Shields!!
got to say worked all over the country but always been glad to get back to sunny??? south shields.As dorothy once said there,s nay plaice like hame or the the nook on a friday night
- Mon Nov 26, 2007 5:01 pm
- Forum: Cleadon Park School
- Topic: cleadon Park
- Replies: 14
- Views: 42959
Re: cleadon Park
the only thing left of the school which is now a community center is the old boys gym, the old woodwork room and the metalwork room which one of which is a weights gym i think