South Shields Sanddancers Forum

Not so very old Markofpity. Just joined Sandancers and came across your post. I used to serve in that shop as a junior assistant and the manageress was Lilian Ritson, who was quite elderly then, (c 1964). The shop was called Vernon's Price Down run by the Moores Group. I remember "The penny bo...

Not so very old Markofpity. Just joined Sandancers and came across your post. I used to serve in that shop as a junior assistant and the manageress was Lilian Ritson, who was quite elderly then, (c 1964). The shop was called Vernon's Price Down run by the Moores Group. I remember "The penny bo...

Some Parka's in that picture eh?

Harry Hogg's shop was on the corner of Wenlock Road and Newcastle Road, I knew him as a fellow playing member of the People's Mission Band in Fort Street at the Lawe Top from the middle 1950's for some years before I joined the RAF. He was a nice friendly chap and a good church man, and I always en...

Having been born and lived on the Old Deans Estate in South Shields i remember some of the Shopkeepers who made a Massive Difference when times were Tough !. There was Elliotts who were a General Grocers shop who used to give my Mum Credit when Dads money never used to come through in time as he wa...

Mr Macdonald was a fabulous teacher and a really nice man. He had the ability to make lessons fascinating rather than a chore and because of that you remembered what he told you and you got involved. We had Mr Easten and he made us read Of Mice and Men too. Mr Easten did my English Oral CSE exam. He...

x Johnson = WARREN Johnson. I could be wrong but it looks like him.