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this is the garage my dad used to work in ,at westoe ,also the county pub ,1939
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heres the same view in 2009
sadly the garage has gone
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They used to be British Leyland dealers, my first company vehicle was a Leyland 350FG and used to take it to them for servicing from new in 1969 till it was replaced in 1976 with over 200.000 miles on clock.Cannot remember the petrol pumps at the front of garage though.
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my dad would of done your care then
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One of my ex school mates worked there as a mechanic..

Ian Sanderson..nicknamed...Spanner. :D

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One of my mates worked there as well. Keith Maskell.
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Very good photo, I was brought up a few streets down in Morpeth Avenue, so I remember that garage very well. =D>
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Remember Derek Taws & Peter Johnstone? Peter was a foreman mech. Derek was an apprentice in the early 50's - Later joined the RN as 3rd.Eng.
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was there also a garage like this in Imery Street as i think as a kid i can remember my uncle working at the pumps
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I think the garage you mean sold Vauxhall cars but I can't remember the name.
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homesick wrote:I think the garage you mean sold Vauxhall cars but I can't remember the name.
Was it Adams and Gibbons, can remember the pumps where set back inside and an overhead hose on a boom dispensed petrol into cars.
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i think thats the one pete
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I have walked past that garage a few times, and I can still here the frightening barks and growls of the two Alsatians dogs that roamed along the fire escape stairs at the rear of the County. They were like two grissly bears that burst into life when ever anyone walked by.
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westoelad wrote:I have walked past that garage a few times, and I can still here the frightening barks and growls of the two Alsatians dogs that roamed along the fire escape stairs at the rear of the County. They were like two grissly bears that burst into life when ever anyone walked by.
i remember them dogs
at the time a lass i went to school with
her dad ran the county
she was called mellina manning
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sless wrote:mellina manning
Punk lass aye?

Me old mate Deansy also worked at the garage after he left school, he died a few years back after he came off his motorbike.
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Wasn't there a Harry Abernethy there in the 60's?
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Jarrow Pete wrote:
homesick wrote:I think the garage you mean sold Vauxhall cars but I can't remember the name.
Was it Adams and Gibbons, can remember the pumps where set back inside and an overhead hose on a boom dispensed petrol into cars.
I think there was a Ken Chamberlain at Adams & Gibbon in the seventies.
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Used to buy my cars from Selwoods Ford garage at the nook in the middle seventies.I remember Ossie Clark and Jeff Fenwick the two car salesmen,and the petrol sold on the forecourt was provided by an attendent...no self service then.
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