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- Sun Jun 17, 2018 4:15 am
- Forum: Tyneside History Room
- Topic: Alfred William Seales
- Replies: 1
- Views: 10177
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.
- Tue Mar 13, 2018 4:22 am
- Forum: Tyneside History Room
- Topic: Hospital on the Lawe
- Replies: 10
- Views: 16717
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...
- Fri Jul 28, 2017 9:13 am
- Forum: Tyneside History Room
- Topic: Burial Memorial Inscriptions
- Replies: 1
- Views: 10118
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.
- Mon Feb 27, 2017 3:22 am
- Forum: Tyneside History Room
- Topic: Baring School South Shields
- Replies: 3
- Views: 11294
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...
- Fri Feb 24, 2017 3:02 pm
- Forum: Tyneside History Room
- Topic: Baring School South Shields
- Replies: 3
- Views: 11294
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...
- Mon Nov 21, 2016 6:44 am
- Forum: Ocean Road School
- Topic: Class 1B Ocean Road Seniors 1957/57
- Replies: 15
- Views: 30444
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...
- Mon Jul 25, 2016 10:44 am
- Forum: Tyneside History Room
- Topic: Help please - Info on Baring Street
- Replies: 1
- Views: 10549
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...
- Mon Nov 02, 2015 10:44 am
- Forum: Tyneside History Room
- Topic: Searcching for an Old Pub Name
- Replies: 1
- Views: 10507
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...
- Mon Sep 28, 2015 10:01 pm
- Forum: Tyneside History Room
- Topic: South Pier Dolly
- Replies: 1
- Views: 10242
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.
- Sun Oct 20, 2013 11:03 am
- Forum: Tyneside History Room
- Topic: Harper Street location
- Replies: 20
- Views: 10765
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...
- Thu Oct 17, 2013 11:04 am
- Forum: Tyneside History Room
- Topic: Harper Street location
- Replies: 20
- Views: 10765
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...
- Fri Oct 04, 2013 5:07 am
- Forum: Tyneside History Room
- Topic: Old Cinemas
- Replies: 38
- Views: 54470
Re: Old Cinemas
I remember the Odeon organ rising from a pit in the stage, lots of glass and lit up from within.
- Tue Jul 30, 2013 3:27 am
- Forum: Tyneside History Room
- Topic: The Roman Quay
- Replies: 3
- Views: 4050
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 ...
- Tue Jul 30, 2013 3:21 am
- Forum: Tyneside History Room
- Topic: 1947 winter and sledging on 'Candy' or 'Teller' Bank
- Replies: 2
- Views: 3533
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...
- Sat Jul 06, 2013 9:03 pm
- Forum: Tyneside History Room
- Topic: LATE 1940's METAL 'MOUNTAIN' ...
- Replies: 2
- Views: 3314
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...
- Sun Mar 10, 2013 11:23 am
- Forum: Tyneside History Room
- Topic: Stone Quay East Holborn
- Replies: 5
- Views: 5102
Re: Stone Quay East Holborn
Very interesting links.
- Thu Feb 28, 2013 6:03 pm
- Forum: Tyneside History Room
- Topic: South Shields folk working in the yards Narrow escapes.
- Replies: 30
- Views: 9673
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 ...
- Thu Feb 28, 2013 4:13 pm
- Forum: Tyneside History Room
- Topic: South Shields folk working in the yards Narrow escapes.
- Replies: 30
- Views: 9673
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...
- Thu Feb 28, 2013 5:35 am
- Forum: Tyneside History Room
- Topic: South Shields folk working in the yards Narrow escapes.
- Replies: 30
- Views: 9673
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...
- Thu Feb 28, 2013 4:50 am
- Forum: Tyneside History Room
- Topic: Greens Place/Beacon Inn pre 1960
- Replies: 12
- Views: 4772
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.