South Shields Sanddancers Forum

Pilot wrote:Frank Lowe, does that ring a bell Pete ?

Thats the one Pilot,think his father worked on the buses,am sure Frank went to Australia.

And a canny walk there and back pete, Ive been trying to remember a school mate of mine called Hill lived on Prince Edward Road near the Marsden inn end on the left as you faced the pub cant remember his first name, any ideas pete, he was my age so maybe a couple of years younger than you. That wou...

Vin wrote:I wish the old phoneboxs was still around to instead of the ones used today!

Great when you pressed button B and got some free pennies.

Favourite spot for us kids from Marsden was a day out at Boldon Flats to collect frog spawn and newts.

Keith Bell who I have known since I was 14 is the biggest heap of s**t to walk the streets of South Shields.He fancied himself as a hardman even in his youth and when he got older he had to surround himself with young thugs to protect himself from the many who wished to give him a deserved good hidi...

the whole park was a landfill site at one point, you can still sometimes just make out the old barbed wire fence that used to be around the old army camp Can remember when it was a rubbish tip opposite the end of King George Road, can also remember the church but have no recollection of an army cam...

Did the church become the headquarters of the tossers who ran the claimants union,something palace I think it was called.

StottieCake wrote:
Awful haircut for a little girl

What happended to the one of you with your late mother?

Mickey only Blands I can remember was Geordie Bland who lived in Quarry Lane between MaCkies and the Kerkoffs, used to swap books with Geordie in mid 60s,he would have been in his forties then.

Wasn't there concrete gun emplacements on the lease.I think they were filled in and covered to make like a small hill . There was three naval coastal defence guns on the cliff tops. You can still see the hillock that was created when they removed the guns and filled in the emplacements. There was t...

Mabel was Wilfred Pickles wife, he used to do Workers Playtime on the Light programme in the 50s and on the show he had a quiz. His favourite saying was "put the money on the table Mabel".

When I started work at Whitburn Pit in 1961 I was warned by my father and others not to go into the old abandoned workings in the old Bensham seam. We young ones when left alone would often venture into the old workings looking for fossils etc. I was told a miner had gotten lost in the old workings ...

Noooooo Jarrow Pete was a few years ahead of me :D :D :D Not to mention Baldy :D :D :D We used to make our own entertainment at Marsden, we would create our own firework displays by going on the rattler railway bridge at the bottom of Redwell Bank and dropping a length of metal onto the trolley bus...

My father worked on them. Came home from the war, started work as a points lad, then a conductor, a trolley bus driver, and finally a motor bus driver. He worked for Shields Corporation for 27 years. I used to take his billy can full of hot tea and meet the bus at the top of our street to give it t...

baldy.smith wrote:Moon Strret ran off Mile End Road just uphill from the station.

The Northern buses used to terminate and start from there as well as the London and Coventry buses.

Good job it didn't show how blue my hands were it was bloomin' freezing last Saturday. But back to the old traditions....did you ever hang around to get a 'christening bag' when people brought their babies to church to get baptised. Usually contained cake, sweets and a two shilling piece ( well tha...

I wish! Like lots of couples then we were engaged for 18 months and saved up for our furniture. Scrimped and saved out of our joint wages of about £25 a week. Husband to be had always saved since he was a lad so you could say I married him for his money :D :D :D Mind my dad paid for the wedding as ...

Bought my first furniture from there when we set up home in 1963. It cost £100 for a three piece suite and £95 for a dining room suite which was quite expensive in those days. Paid £100 for our first of many 3 pieces from Woodhouse in King Street in 1973. When you consider that the average tradesma...

buntix wrote:I can remember the stadium being used in the 1950s for tattoos. Not on the body,
but like the Edinburgh, although on a smaller scale.

Was always fascinated with the large army searchlights they used to illuminate the tattoo's.

I left Shields in the late 60's. Just browsing and came across this excellent site. My Gran was from originally from Tyne Dock but lived up at the Nook. She still went down to Frederick Street every Saturday morning for her shopping and I remember our weekly visit to Poretta's for a savoury dip. Dr...