South Shields Sanddancers Forum

hi i am looking for gibson fam, from gateshead 1900-50s i think it was george had pub on newcastle quay side near swing bridge in 50s there were 12 boys and one girl my grandmother one of the brothers went to austrailia the father was sea captain and mother had lodging house my grandmother married h...

i got a very good cd from ebay william clavery a man and his camera a 100 images of laygate in 50s &60s well worth watching

there was a good record shop on warpole st just off fredrick st and also lower down on south fredrick street

duncans groceries shop was on bolden lane and presto took over and opened it as a self service shop i believe it was first s,market in s,shields it was on first block just up from wrights biscuits. i was working for duncans at the time it must have been 62/63

that would be her. her name was pamela we were all there that night, my cousins the harrisons and me think i was about 10 and she was year or 2 younger than me, her older sister was called maureen a friend of our cathy, never forget it it was a horrible wet night and we stood in the rain waiting for...

i mentioned the usual childhood illnesses, measels, chicken pox ETC i was reffering to the health hygine and safty aspect there was none of that then, that there is now, ie wafers, and fish n chips out of news papers, i know that polio & diptheria did take a lot of children but that was a bit be...

st bedes school was opposit the baths and further down was the joke shop on same side as school i used to go to st bedes and spend my half penny bus fare on an old newspaper full of broken wafers from the wafer factory on derby street. and then walk home to taylor street those were the days no healt...

cant remember a pully bank in so/shields only pully bank i know was the one from ferry landing up to borough rd n/shields i think there was a joke shop at bottom end of derby st but some older s,dancers will no doubt put me right

only dolly i remember in s,shields was one on the lighthouse on end of pier

my grandad on mams side harry alexander and also my dad jim taylor worked at readheads

i can remember one on n, shields fish quay but not one in shields where abouts was it,

remember paying 4d for a packet with little blue twist of salt in 50s

i lived on taylor street havelock street end close to fruit shop very close to hanrattys remember my nan getting a big high brass fender with all matching poker tongs shovel etc. for 5 shilling, used to sit on fender in front of big roaring fire, that was 55 ish bet they would be worth a fortune now

hansons fish shop was on , laygate lane op, laygate flats my mam worked there when we lived in laygate flats in 60s

hi i remember lots of graves at trinity church your relatives could be burried there

sure they were newmans living on taylor street called the lady of the house marion lived in the low numbers in 50s

i seem to remember the name how old would denis be? they were flats. so he would have lived next door to us we had the larger 3 bed upper flat,

i lived in taylor st, late 40s to late 50s but i was top end no 12 near hanratteys but cant remember those names

that would be great thanks some one else was asking about both these names in a old post but i cant find it now and forgot who it was maybe because its been brought up again it might jog someones memory

hi i never heard stan mention him dont know the name stan would have been 68 this year but sadly he passed away at 49