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by westoelad
Sat May 26, 2012 9:02 pm
Forum: Tyneside History Room
Topic: John Simpson Kirkpatrick The Man with the Donkey (Gallipoli)
Replies: 9
Views: 18269

Re: John Simpson Kirkpatrick The Man with the Donkey (Gallip

jimmywizz wrote:i can never figure out why this story has never been made into a blockbuster film
Completely agree Jimmy,

Imagine if our own Ridley Scott happened upon the idea - now he could do the story justice.
by westoelad
Sat Apr 14, 2012 2:42 pm
Forum: Tyneside History Room
Topic: sanatorium at cleadon
Replies: 18
Views: 7736

Re: sanatorium at cleadon

Here is a photograph of the staff of the Sanatorium circa 1976. http://i853.photobucket.com/albums/ab92/westoelad/Family/CleadonParkSanatoriuma.jpg This is the retirement of the Matron seen here in the middle holding the flowers. Their names from left to right: Mona Duffy - Jane Robson - Nancy o'Mar...
by westoelad
Mon Apr 09, 2012 10:17 am
Forum: Tyneside History Room
Topic: brigham & cowans shipyard
Replies: 11
Views: 4423

Re: brigham & cowans shipyard

SEE POST BELOW :oops:
Thanks Pilot - I must pay more attention.
by westoelad
Wed Oct 05, 2011 9:05 pm
Forum: North East Lost Friends & Relatives Board
Topic: Tissiman watch/clock repairer.
Replies: 4
Views: 9382

Re: Tissiman watch/clock repairer.

If it is the Tisseman's I think it is they emigrated to Canada in the late seventies from their home in Hepscott Terrace.
I know they are on Friends Re-united and that Mrs. Tisseman and her husband must be in their late seventies or early eighties now.
by westoelad
Tue Aug 23, 2011 6:48 pm
Forum: Tyneside History Room
Topic: Burndept/Vidor photographs etc.
Replies: 39
Views: 13396

Re: Burndept/Vidor photographs etc.

Does anybody remember the gay blonde lad (not me) who worked in the stores. He was Diana Dors mad. He bought a load of paperwork and diaries when Diana's possesions came to auction. They did a TV programme about her missing millions and this lad had the codes that may help to find them. He died ver...
by westoelad
Sun Aug 07, 2011 9:55 am
Forum: Tyneside History Room
Topic: Young Codger
Replies: 47
Views: 12408

Re: Young Codger

:wink: and don't call me dafty. :D
by westoelad
Sat Aug 06, 2011 10:07 pm
Forum: Tyneside History Room
Topic: Young Codger
Replies: 47
Views: 12408

Re: Young Codger

Loved the picture in the paper you put up Stottie........................... :oops:
by westoelad
Sun Jul 24, 2011 11:02 am
Forum: Tyneside History Room
Topic: Harpers Buildings
Replies: 9
Views: 4023

Re: Harpers Buildings

What an excellent photograph. http://i853.photobucket.com/albums/ab92/westoelad/harpersbuildings.png I have been passed this area hundreds of times and had often wondered what was there before the car park and the telephone exchange, now I know, thanks. I seem to remember a small hump back bridge at...
by westoelad
Mon Apr 18, 2011 7:19 pm
Forum: Tyneside History Room
Topic: What is something you miss that is not here now?
Replies: 28
Views: 7423

Re: What is something you miss that is not here now?

Queen Victoria at the Chi.
by westoelad
Thu Apr 07, 2011 9:22 pm
Forum: North East Lost Friends & Relatives Board
Topic: Looking for info descendants of Buglass Family
Replies: 7
Views: 3444

Re:

Hi Jane. None of those first names mean anything to me but I did know a Stan and Molly Buglass. Any connection? Stan was a manager for Tarmac construction, he and Molly were very good friends of my parents back in the early seventies. Stan provided a Ford transit van which Chris drove down to Leeds...
by westoelad
Tue Apr 05, 2011 6:21 pm
Forum: Tyneside History Room
Topic: Derby Street Baths
Replies: 75
Views: 144142

Re: Derby Street Baths

sless wrote:everetts

seems to ring a bell,
Yes I do believe thats the name - I have been trying like blazes to remember it, thanks.
by westoelad
Mon Apr 04, 2011 8:54 pm
Forum: Tyneside History Room
Topic: Derby Street Baths
Replies: 75
Views: 144142

Re: Derby Street Baths

I think Glebe Methodist Church was on Westoe Road beside the Westoe bridges at the top of Chi Road, new housing now occupies the place where it once stood.
I seem to remember a stone masons being opposite on Imeary Street, I wonder if that is still there.
by westoelad
Fri Feb 25, 2011 9:44 pm
Forum: Tyneside History Room
Topic: Derby Street Baths
Replies: 75
Views: 144142

Re: Derby Street Baths

There was a church on the left side of Derby Street as you walked away from the baths, the back butted onto the railway at the back of the presbetary gardens of St. Bedes church, it was just after the back lane from Westoe Road, sorry I do not know the name or denomination it served.
by westoelad
Fri Jan 28, 2011 10:05 pm
Forum: Tyneside History Room
Topic: river Tyne photos
Replies: 10
Views: 4507

Re: river Tyne photos

Thanks for sharing your photo's, my dad if he was still alive would have liked to view them - he served his time there in the late fourties and early fifties and later went to see on the Gorjistan one of Readheads built ships I believe.
by westoelad
Wed Jan 12, 2011 9:15 pm
Forum: Tyneside History Room
Topic: new suite
Replies: 10
Views: 3865

Re: new suite

I remember "The Saturday Night" suite by John Collier.

You got a 45 rpm flexible plastic single record which played "The Saturday Night" suite ditty - realy tacky.
by westoelad
Tue Jan 11, 2011 8:14 pm
Forum: Tyneside History Room
Topic: Catherine Cookson.....Where is Mabel?
Replies: 11
Views: 3727

Re: Catherine Cookson.....Where is Mabel?

StottieCake wrote:It's yours :lol: Will you give another five quid to St Clares ?
It's gone very quiet :lol:
by westoelad
Fri Nov 12, 2010 11:23 pm
Forum: Tyneside History Room
Topic: When Shields was alive
Replies: 25
Views: 7599

Re: When Shields was alive

When your packet of crisps had a little blue bag in them.
by westoelad
Fri Nov 05, 2010 1:08 pm
Forum: Tyneside History Room
Topic: When Shields was alive
Replies: 25
Views: 7599

Re: When Shields was alive

Tyne Dock Arches. 8)
by westoelad
Thu Nov 04, 2010 9:21 pm
Forum: Tyneside History Room
Topic: When Shields was alive
Replies: 25
Views: 7599

When Shields was alive

I can still remember the clanking of the trains full of coal along Chi Road. The sound of the riveters constant bang, bang bang coming from the River. The Dock hooters at 7:30, 12:00 and 16:30. The ding ding bell from the back of the open backed buses. The waves pushing in along the beech at long sa...
by westoelad
Sun Oct 24, 2010 8:04 pm
Forum: Tyneside History Room
Topic: Marsden Street
Replies: 62
Views: 64950

Re: Marsden Street

Yes, Gerty Ockleford, now there was a character. Her house is still standing (it missed the mass demolition of the surrounding area) resplendid withthe large stone pillar gate posts - number 52 Chichester Road if I remember. She only worked eight months or so of the year teaching the rudiments of mu...