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by Stout
Fri Apr 15, 2011 10:58 pm
Forum: Tyneside History Room
Topic: Shields Fauna
Replies: 44
Views: 11671

Re: Shields Fauna

Saw a pair of Whinchats on a garden wall on Grotto Rd today. Never seen one before so i was well pleased.
by Stout
Mon Jan 17, 2011 10:32 pm
Forum: Tyneside History Room
Topic: Shields Fauna
Replies: 44
Views: 11671

Re: Shields Fauna

A good spotting day today, grey squirrel, woodpecker and a small flock of long tailed t*ts. All between the cleadon rec and Sunnirise. :D
by Stout
Thu Dec 23, 2010 11:59 pm
Forum: Tyneside History Room
Topic: Shields Fauna
Replies: 44
Views: 11671

Re: Shields Fauna

Yeah that's the chap Jimmy, when i compare it to a snipe it seems the more likely candidate. The beak didn't seem as long as a snipes.
by Stout
Wed Dec 22, 2010 7:21 pm
Forum: Tyneside History Room
Topic: Shields Fauna
Replies: 44
Views: 11671

Re: Shields Fauna

A Thrush? Def not a thrush, wrong shape, darker colouring and a long thin beak. I saw some kind of warbler in a garden in Dunlop crescent today, it looked most like a garden warbler but they arent resident during the winter. The other half saw a pair of birds that looked similar in our garden yeste...
by Stout
Tue Dec 21, 2010 8:21 pm
Forum: Tyneside History Room
Topic: Shields Fauna
Replies: 44
Views: 11671

Re: Shields Fauna

I have, while blundering about the Sunderland Road/Harton House Rd area disturbed a bird from its hiding place on a few occasions. Its a brown/black mottled bird with a long beak, a bit bigger than a blackbird and i tend to happen upon it hiding in hedges and flower beds (the bird, not me). I would ...
by Stout
Sun Oct 17, 2010 12:06 am
Forum: Tyneside History Room
Topic: South Shields Accordian Band
Replies: 2
Views: 1747

Re: South Shields Accordian Band

http://www.concertina.net/images/bands_bellvue.jpg Apart from Sunderland Rd and Westoe Village are there any other places with houses like that? Belle Vue above the door? I know it was a popular name for houses but it might possibly relate to Belle Vue in Manchester where they held the band competi...
by Stout
Fri Sep 10, 2010 10:51 pm
Forum: Tyneside History Room
Topic: Blackberry picking season
Replies: 3
Views: 2700

Re: Blackberry picking season

Just got back from the Norfolk Broads and their blackberries are either a different type to ours or are tiny/later ripening.
Got a load from over the back from us but the council saw fit to hack them all down before they were all ready for pickng. Still ive got enough to brew with i reckon.
by Stout
Sat Aug 07, 2010 5:31 pm
Forum: Tyneside History Room
Topic: baulard and fosters
Replies: 17
Views: 6904

Re: baulard and fosters

sless wrote:mellina manning
Punk lass aye?

Me old mate Deansy also worked at the garage after he left school, he died a few years back after he came off his motorbike.
by Stout
Mon May 03, 2010 1:23 am
Forum: Tyneside History Room
Topic: Shields Fauna
Replies: 44
Views: 11671

Re: Shields Fauna

If only i had the eye and the camera, they were just found via google. as is this... http://www.food4wildbirds.co.uk/images/photos/large/redwing_1.jpg remembered i saw some redwings in St Peter's church grounds over the winter. They roam across the UK's countryside, feeding in fields and hedgerows, ...
by Stout
Sat Feb 13, 2010 7:31 pm
Forum: Tyneside History Room
Topic: Shields Fauna
Replies: 44
Views: 11671

Re: Shields Fauna

Over the last couple of days ive spotted: http://www.birdguides.com/i/articles/000225/thumbnail.jpg A waxwing, in a tree next to the Old Ship in Harton. Fairly rare sighting as according to the RSPB only about 100 waxwings overwinter in the UK. http://www.wildaboutkent.com/gallery/albums/game-birds/...
by Stout
Thu Oct 08, 2009 10:47 pm
Forum: Tyneside History Room
Topic: Shield's Bar (NOT about pubs this time)
Replies: 6
Views: 2323

Re: Shield's Bar (NOT about pubs this time)

Spot on Jimmy. SOUTH SHIELDS SALT MAKING Like many other towns in the North East, coal was a major factor influencing the growth of South Shields. For over two hundred years it was used in the process of making salt and in 1768 the town was the site of 200 salt pans. In fact South Shields was once t...
by Stout
Sun Oct 04, 2009 10:55 pm
Forum: Tyneside History Room
Topic: Shield's Bar (NOT about pubs this time)
Replies: 6
Views: 2323

Re: Shield's Bar (NOT about pubs this time)

Thank you for that gents, i always find the folk here a damn sight more informative than Google =D> if anyone's interested, the rest of the lyrics and a bit of background to the song are here..... http://www.informatik.uni-hamburg.de/~zierke/frankie.armstrong/songs/heresthetendercoming.html which i ...
by Stout
Sun Oct 04, 2009 8:25 pm
Forum: Tyneside History Room
Topic: Shield's Bar (NOT about pubs this time)
Replies: 6
Views: 2323

Shield's Bar (NOT about pubs this time)

Could anyone tell me what or where was Shield's/Shields'/Shields Bar? It's mentioned in the lyrics to an old song about press gangs: "Here's the tender coming, pressin' aal the men; Oh dear hinny, what shall we dee then? Here's the tender coming, off o' Shield's Bar, Here's the tender coming, f...
by Stout
Tue Sep 01, 2009 10:18 pm
Forum: Tyneside History Room
Topic: Barnes Road School
Replies: 57
Views: 60800

Re: Barnes Road School

Miss Marshall, Mrs Tinnian, Miss Welsbury/Mrs Haynes i remember, i still see one of the B.R. infants teachers (the name escapes me) and she hasnt changed nearly forty years later. Mrs Hunter was the headmistress aye? I used to see her when she came into the store a few years back and she hadnt chang...
by Stout
Mon Aug 24, 2009 9:44 pm
Forum: Local Bands Notice Board
Topic: New Blues Club in East Boldon- Featuring Gordon Smith
Replies: 2
Views: 9560

Re: New Blues Club in East Boldon- Featuring Gordon Smith

is this the same bluesboy that used to post on JBK?
by Stout
Tue Aug 11, 2009 10:05 pm
Forum: Tyneside History Room
Topic: Geordie Folk Songs
Replies: 8
Views: 1880

Re: Geordie Folk Songs

Doon The Waggonway
Ee Aye Ah Cud Hew
Fareweel Regality
Felton Lonnen
One Miner's Life
by Stout
Tue Aug 04, 2009 9:21 pm
Forum: Doon Toon Notice Board
Topic: Images Nightclub Laygate
Replies: 1
Views: 9913

Re: Images Nightclub Laygate

I used to go see daft punk bands upstairs there during the very late 80's/ early 90s and once i also happened to stumble in to the downstair bar where there were young ladies bereft of attire, purely by accident of course.
by Stout
Wed Jul 22, 2009 6:10 pm
Forum: Tyneside History Room
Topic: Shields Fauna
Replies: 44
Views: 11671

Re: Shields Fauna

Walking on Readhead Ave this morning when what flies by me and over the roofs? a DRAGONFLY of all things! Someone must have a hell of a garden pond round Westoe area.
by Stout
Wed Jul 22, 2009 6:03 pm
Forum: Tyneside History Room
Topic: The Congregational Hall
Replies: 6
Views: 1237

Re: The Congregational Hall

Used to go to Ocean Road juniors so ive been in the congregational hall a few times, also at Easter with the cubs/sea scouts. Quite nice inside from what i remember.