Re: grocer in laygate
Posted: Fri Feb 03, 2012 10:42 pm
That would be just across the road from the Zion Hall Pete, looking down Palmerston Street.
Your local information source for South Shields and Surrounding Areas.
http://forum.southshields-sanddancers.co.uk/boards/
http://forum.southshields-sanddancers.co.uk/boards/viewtopic.php?t=15523
harryharpurhey wrote:I don't know if the question has been answered; I know that it's a few years ago.
The grocers in Laygate were my relatives.
Jimmy McLean and his wife, Nora (nee Coser) had the shop first. It was then taken over by Charlie Coser and his wife, Irene (nee Elliott).
Charlie and Nora were the brother and sister of my mother, Sarah Coser.
Charlie had ambitions to be a Conservative councillor. Unfortunately for him, his uncle was Billy Malcolm - I'm sure the surname is familiar.
Charlie was a rep for VG and his customers were not to happy about his proposed move in to politics, which proved to be short lived.
My mother was among a number of young women who worked at the Syko?? who were conscripted to do war work in Manchester.
Any information on the Syko?? (although I was taken there when I was young, I'm unsure of the spelling) will be grateful received. Also any information on why the women were sent to Manchester. Plus any information on Captain Jimmy McLean.