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by passtheball
Sun Mar 09, 2014 4:34 pm
Forum: Tyneside History Room
Topic: Help wanted to find photo
Replies: 11
Views: 15398

Re: Help wanted to find photo

Hi Delilahcat, The photo I mentioned that I recall was a close up of the NCB vesting day sign on the Boldon Colliery main entrance gates, with numerous faces also in close up, a search for which has regrettably been unsuccessful. What I have found amongst my Boldon Colliery Band photographs is the p...
by passtheball
Fri Mar 07, 2014 12:08 pm
Forum: Tyneside History Room
Topic: Help wanted to find photo
Replies: 11
Views: 15398

Re: Help wanted to find photo

I am sure that I have a photo of the event when the NCB ownership at Boldon Colliery was made public with the commemoration of a large sign to that effect at the colliery main entrance, to the best of my memory it shows officials, local people and the colliery band. I will have a thorough search and...
by passtheball
Fri Feb 21, 2014 12:57 am
Forum: Tyneside History Room
Topic: Old Shopkeepers Remembered !
Replies: 14
Views: 15625

Re: Old Shopkeepers Remembered !

Harry Hogg's shop was on the corner of Wenlock Road and Newcastle Road, I knew him as a fellow playing member of the People's Mission Band in Fort Street at the Lawe Top from the middle 1950's for some years before I joined the RAF. He was a nice friendly chap and a good church man, and I always enj...
by passtheball
Tue Feb 04, 2014 10:51 pm
Forum: Tyneside History Room
Topic: Old Shopkeepers Remembered !
Replies: 14
Views: 15625

Re: Old Shopkeepers Remembered !

Who remembers Jack Stamp's newspaper shop in Cuthbert Street, and who might please have a photograph ? Also a snap of Coun. George Rossiter's wood and joinery place at the Smith Street end of Wilson Street ?
by passtheball
Mon Dec 30, 2013 9:33 pm
Forum: Tyneside History Room
Topic: Old Cinemas
Replies: 38
Views: 53000

Re: Old Cinemas

Many thanks once again Mr Smith, kind of you to oblige. I shall continue the search for a general view of the entrance to the slaughter house on Station Road, Jack Stamps paper shop on Cuthbert Street, and views of Wilson Street, just might to out there somewhere ....
by passtheball
Sun Dec 29, 2013 8:36 pm
Forum: Tyneside History Room
Topic: Old Cinemas
Replies: 38
Views: 53000

Re: Old Cinemas

Can any reader please oblige with photographs of the Pavilion cinema at High Shields, and any photographs of the houses that were on Station Road opposite to what is now B & Q, and are there any views of the 'Slaughter House' available, situated where the South Tyneside police command centre is ...
by passtheball
Sat Dec 28, 2013 12:56 pm
Forum: Tyneside History Room
Topic: What was The Winskills called?
Replies: 7
Views: 8413

Re: What was The Winskills called?

Thanks Mr Smith, and his name is yet so familiar nearly a century after his death, wonder if he died 'in harness' being then only 53 ?
by passtheball
Sat Dec 28, 2013 11:30 am
Forum: Tyneside History Room
Topic: What was The Winskills called?
Replies: 7
Views: 8413

Re: What was The Winskills called?

It would be most interesting to be please informed who 'Mr Winskell' was and the period that he was the manager of the pub, he must have been a very popular chap for his name to stick for so many years as an alternative identify for this one time popular venue. I knew it very well indeed pre the 196...
by passtheball
Wed Nov 20, 2013 7:52 pm
Forum: Tyneside History Room
Topic: History Of South Shields in Photos
Replies: 4
Views: 11206

Re: History Of South Shields in Photos

Can you please tell me the name of the group on facebook ? I would like very much to see the 1500 piece collection, in return I can help you with copies of old maps of Shields, and maybe also be able to help with answers to some of the questions you have been asked.
by passtheball
Thu Nov 07, 2013 2:58 pm
Forum: Tyneside History Room
Topic: Harper Street location
Replies: 20
Views: 10640

Re: Harper Street location

Looking forward very much friend Hartman 045 to your further photographs of Mile End Road etc being posted, all lovely memories for me as a 'blown away' Lawe Topper, formerly of 102 Greens Place ( 50 odd years ago and next door then to 'The Beacon' ), and for all readers who have any photos please o...
by passtheball
Sun Oct 20, 2013 2:15 pm
Forum: Tyneside History Room
Topic: Harper Street location
Replies: 20
Views: 10640

Re: Harper Street location

You are to be congratulated on your sterling research, and for making such sentimental wonderful photographs that hold such lovely memories of childhood days kindly available for those of us one time 'Lawe Toppers' and 'Skuetenders'. I look forward with much anticipation to more, many sincere thanks...
by passtheball
Wed Oct 16, 2013 11:22 pm
Forum: Tyneside History Room
Topic: Harper Street location
Replies: 20
Views: 10640

Re: Harper Street location

Thank you Mr Smith, but unfortunately I do have this particular photograph. Where I really want to be is in the area around the car in the far background on the right side of the street .....
by passtheball
Wed Oct 16, 2013 10:56 pm
Forum: Tyneside History Room
Topic: Harper Street location
Replies: 20
Views: 10640

Re: Harper Street location

I wonder if Mr Smith and Hartman 045 could please oblige with any further photographs of the Lawe Top area, both at ground level and aerial for very sentimental old times sake ? I lived at 102 Greens Place, next door to the Beacon Inn, 1938 - 1959, with quite wonderful dear memories. My wife spent h...
by passtheball
Sun Jul 28, 2013 10:25 am
Forum: Tyneside History Room
Topic: The motor boat club stone canch
Replies: 1
Views: 2948

Re: The motor boat club stone canch

I will contact the Tyne and Wear Museums Service and will post anything positive in response.
by passtheball
Sun Jul 28, 2013 10:23 am
Forum: Tyneside History Room
Topic: 1947 winter and sledging on 'Candy' or 'Teller' Bank
Replies: 2
Views: 3494

Re: 1947 winter and sledging on 'Candy' or 'Teller' Bank

Still hoping that a reader may be able to please provide some clues etc as to why River Drive bank was so-called 'Candy' or 'Teller' Bank, it must presumably have some kind of basis for these nicknames. I seem to recall seeing a photograph in the Shields 'Gazette' from that time when a youngster, an...
by passtheball
Sun Jul 28, 2013 10:18 am
Forum: Tyneside History Room
Topic: The Roman Quay
Replies: 3
Views: 4008

Re: The Roman Quay

Perhaps not too late for any Lawe Topper yet in residence or 'blown away' reading this note, may yet be most hopefully able to provide some pieces of information etc including any possible sources to be researched for historical data as may be....
by passtheball
Sun Jul 28, 2013 10:14 am
Forum: Tyneside History Room
Topic: LATE 1940's METAL 'MOUNTAIN' ...
Replies: 2
Views: 3272

Re: LATE 1940's METAL 'MOUNTAIN' ...

Unfortunately it seems that any recollection of this 'metal mountain' is indeed beyond memory, much less a photograph being most hopefully available from those times of the early post war days, till I continue to hope that someone, somewhere ......
by passtheball
Thu Jul 04, 2013 9:20 pm
Forum: Tyneside History Room
Topic: The Roman Quay
Replies: 3
Views: 4008

The Roman Quay

The location of the Roman quay that served the supply fort on the Lawe has never been actually proven by excavation, and an important piece of local history yet remains to be found. I have not read of any real 'digs' to try and determine its actual position, which is presumed to have been in the are...
by passtheball
Thu Jul 04, 2013 8:54 pm
Forum: Tyneside History Room
Topic: 1947 winter and sledging on 'Candy' or 'Teller' Bank
Replies: 2
Views: 3494

1947 winter and sledging on 'Candy' or 'Teller' Bank

I well remember sledging down River Drive bank, otherwise known to us as 'Candy' or 'Teller' bank ( I never knew why these names were used - does any reader ?). The winter of 1947 is remembered in particular, as the run down this marvellous slope attracted hundred's of local Lawe Topper kids with a ...
by passtheball
Thu Jul 04, 2013 8:44 pm
Forum: Tyneside History Room
Topic: The white wall ....
Replies: 0
Views: 5257

The white wall ....

Does any reader have any information and photographs of the 'white wall', which I well recall as a boy next to what is now the SAFT factory ( ex Burndept/Vidor ) on River Drive, of its origins as a stone quay from the 1700's presumably..... ?