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by ralph
Sun Jun 17, 2018 4:15 am
Forum: Tyneside History Room
Topic: Alfred William Seales
Replies: 1
Views: 9640

Re: Alfred William Seales

You could try posting this on the Facebook Goup Site: South Shields Genealogy, it has over a thousand members and is quite active, you may get some information there.
by ralph
Tue Mar 13, 2018 4:22 am
Forum: Tyneside History Room
Topic: Hospital on the Lawe
Replies: 10
Views: 15943

Re: Hospital on the Lawe

I believe that 15, The Lawe was on Lawe Rd. and it was a home for boys who were ex-T.S. Wellesley after WW1 and needed somewhere to stay whilst they re-intergrated into local society. The Training Ship "Wellesley" was a 19th century school preparing boys for a life at sea and housed up to...
by ralph
Fri Jul 28, 2017 9:13 am
Forum: Tyneside History Room
Topic: Burial Memorial Inscriptions
Replies: 1
Views: 9555

Re: Burial Memorial Inscriptions

There is a gentleman called Bill Hartman who has a large collection of photos and has a lot of information about memeorial stones. He is on Facebook, he would be worth a try.
by ralph
Mon Feb 27, 2017 3:22 am
Forum: Tyneside History Room
Topic: Baring School South Shields
Replies: 3
Views: 10708

Re: Baring School South Shields

Looking at the age of your dad's sisters. it seems unlikely that they would have been the right age. Mam's friend was named Ophelia. That doesn't mean of course that they did not know the family. I still remember Robinson Street so very well and have fond memories of the shops and their owners. I ha...
by ralph
Fri Feb 24, 2017 3:02 pm
Forum: Tyneside History Room
Topic: Baring School South Shields
Replies: 3
Views: 10708

Re: Baring School South Shields

I was born in Reay Street in 1944 (Robinson Street adjoined Reay Street at the top end. My family had lived there for a great many years and my mother, who was born the year before your dad, attended Baring Street School (as I did myself, Infants and Juniors). I do remember her talking of one of her...
by ralph
Mon Nov 21, 2016 6:44 am
Forum: Ocean Road School
Topic: Class 1B Ocean Road Seniors 1957/57
Replies: 15
Views: 29152

Re: Class 1B Ocean Road Seniors 1957/57

Julie, I saw this message years ago, just after you posted it and sent you an email. I never got a reply so you may have stopped using the site, but if ever you do revisit and see this post, yes I remember you very well indeed, and all of the kids from that time. I have lived in or near to London fo...
by ralph
Mon Jul 25, 2016 10:44 am
Forum: Tyneside History Room
Topic: Help please - Info on Baring Street
Replies: 1
Views: 9992

Re: Help please - Info on Baring Street

As the excavations at the Fort began in the 1870's and most of the houses in Baring Street were built at about the same time, it may be that there were never any houses built on that part of the street. I was born in near-bye Reay Street in 1944 and played in the fort area as a kid, but cannot remem...
by ralph
Mon Nov 02, 2015 10:44 am
Forum: Tyneside History Room
Topic: Searcching for an Old Pub Name
Replies: 1
Views: 9936

Re: Searcching for an Old Pub Name

I have looked on the Internet and found two pubs in Wellington Street: 'The Bee Hive', which stood well after the time that Wellington Street was demolished. It is turn was demolished (I have vague memories of it so it probably survived until the early 1950's). I was replaced with another pub of the...
by ralph
Mon Sep 28, 2015 10:01 pm
Forum: Tyneside History Room
Topic: South Pier Dolly
Replies: 1
Views: 9983

Re: South Pier Dolly

I think that over the years people just chipped away at it until nothing was left. So sad as generations of kids went to look at it. :(
by ralph
Sun Oct 20, 2013 11:03 am
Forum: Tyneside History Room
Topic: Harper Street location
Replies: 20
Views: 10639

Re: Harper Street location

What a brilliant photograph! It takes me back to my childhood - all the streets and houses I knew so well. As for which gravestones they kept, I would imagine that they would have asked living relatives and perhaps have published a public notice asking for others to express an interest. Of the few t...
by ralph
Thu Oct 17, 2013 11:04 am
Forum: Tyneside History Room
Topic: Harper Street location
Replies: 20
Views: 10639

Re: Harper Street location

That is brilliant Mr Smith. Many thanks. In the attached photo taken in the 1950s, Harper St is hidden by the church then. What is the date of the map you aare using? Mine is 1895. http://img843.imageshack.us/img843/3662/dmqu.jpg Great Photo of St Stephen's Church with the grave stones still in pla...
by ralph
Fri Oct 04, 2013 5:07 am
Forum: Tyneside History Room
Topic: Old Cinemas
Replies: 38
Views: 52977

Re: Old Cinemas

I remember the Odeon organ rising from a pit in the stage, lots of glass and lit up from within. :D
by ralph
Tue Jul 30, 2013 3:27 am
Forum: Tyneside History Room
Topic: The Roman Quay
Replies: 3
Views: 4007

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.... I suppose the river would have been very different ...
by ralph
Tue Jul 30, 2013 3:21 am
Forum: Tyneside History Room
Topic: 1947 winter and sledging on 'Candy' or 'Teller' Bank
Replies: 2
Views: 3493

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, a...
by ralph
Sat Jul 06, 2013 9:03 pm
Forum: Tyneside History Room
Topic: LATE 1940's METAL 'MOUNTAIN' ...
Replies: 2
Views: 3272

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

It would seem that not many people had cameras in those days, and if they did, the photos they took would have to be 'special' in some way to justify the cost of the film, developing and printing. Today, with digital photography we are accustomed to taking masses of photos, most of which will be del...
by ralph
Sun Mar 10, 2013 11:23 am
Forum: Tyneside History Room
Topic: Stone Quay East Holborn
Replies: 5
Views: 5035

Re: Stone Quay East Holborn

Very interesting links.
by ralph
Thu Feb 28, 2013 6:03 pm
Forum: Tyneside History Room
Topic: South Shields folk working in the yards Narrow escapes.
Replies: 30
Views: 9538

Re: South Shields folk working in the yards Narrow escapes.

I agree with your concluding sentence and would never want a return to the bad old days. I think i detected a strong whiff of those bad old days yesterday, when listening to Jacob Rees Mogg MP speaking in a debate in the house, about housing benefit and the need to exert economic pressure on people ...
by ralph
Thu Feb 28, 2013 4:13 pm
Forum: Tyneside History Room
Topic: South Shields folk working in the yards Narrow escapes.
Replies: 30
Views: 9538

Re: South Shields folk working in the yards Narrow escapes.

Deliliah, I have never complained about people being looked after when they have genuine illness or disability , and I would hate to think that we could ever return to the bad old days. I have however seen not the occasional malingerer slipping through the net, but many abuses over the years, and it...
by ralph
Thu Feb 28, 2013 5:35 am
Forum: Tyneside History Room
Topic: South Shields folk working in the yards Narrow escapes.
Replies: 30
Views: 9538

Re: South Shields folk working in the yards Narrow escapes.

This turned into a very interesting thread. I never worked in the yards, though my brother worked at Brigham and Cowans from being an apprentice in the 1950's until the yard finally closed, with the exception of a couple of years away for National Service, and my grandfather and father also spent ye...
by ralph
Thu Feb 28, 2013 4:50 am
Forum: Tyneside History Room
Topic: Greens Place/Beacon Inn pre 1960
Replies: 12
Views: 4707

Re: Greens Place/Beacon Inn pre 1960

Passtheball, no Dad Meston is not on there. Other people on there is my grandfather Ralph Burn, Norman Heron, 'Cabbage' Woods, Mr Gamble, Mr Seales, Lilly Pottinger and I believe the manager and manageress of the pub are on there as well.