Dolly.....

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her statue got put outside a pub, can remember waiting outside drinking lemonade whilst foster parents in the pub
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i can remember one on n, shields fish quay but not one in shields where abouts was it,
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I don't ever recall a wooden dolly in South Shields.
The one in North Shields was of a fisher woman and not Dolly Peel.
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only dolly i remember in s,shields was one on the lighthouse on end of pier
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Mr Smith wrote:I don't ever recall a wooden dolly in South Shields.
The one in North Shields was of a fisher woman and not Dolly Peel.
I can remember that, is it stll there or has it gone?
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brian c wrote:
Mr Smith wrote:I don't ever recall a wooden dolly in South Shields.
The one in North Shields was of a fisher woman and not Dolly Peel.
I can remember that, is it stll there or has it gone?

It was replaced quite a while back Brian, I believe the current one is the fourth one to be replaced.
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funny how this should come up as i just found this on ebay today http://www.ebay.co.uk/itm/statue-of-the ... 27c5c042e9
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