Listen to the Fog Horn

robpapE2 · Post by **robpapE2** » Mon Dec 18, 2006 11:25 pm

Up here when only the plonkies and robbers are about you can here the Toon Haal Clock chiming ..thats Biddick Hall ..about 40 minutes walk away from the Toon Centre !!!!!

Babooshka · Post by **Babooshka** » Sun Apr 01, 2007 10:35 pm

Yes well the fog horn has been sounding the last couple of nights, haven't heard the little bell at the Groyne clanging tho' maybe cos' it wasn't such a heavy fog?

little_tata · Post by **little_tata** » Mon Apr 02, 2007 7:16 pm

Just been reading through this thread, and I wondered where
Harton Downhill Infants was?

I used to love the sound of the fog horn - I don't hear it so much now - not near enough I think!

Babooshka · Post by **Babooshka** » Mon Apr 02, 2007 8:36 pm

I could ask the same question, used to deal with all the school health/immunisation records for all schools in South Tyneside so I really should know

One of my favourite things is to be down at the beach when the fog horn is going, it's sooo spooky

Cisco · Post by **Cisco** » Mon Apr 02, 2007 8:54 pm

It's hard to give direction If you don't know the area,

If you know Blackberry Hills, downhill infants backed onto it at the top.

little_tata · Post by **little_tata** » Mon Apr 02, 2007 10:42 pm

The only primary school I knew around that way was Cheviot Junior School.

Is the school still there, or has it been knocked down?

One of my favourite things is to be down at the beach when the fog horn is going, it's sooo spooky

I used to like listening to it when I used to work night shifts - I used to find it soothing.

One of my friends who used to live in Hereford told me the thing that always makes him feel 'at home', no matter where he is, is the sound of a fog horn.

Globalmyths · Post by **Globalmyths** » Wed Apr 04, 2007 1:59 pm

I thought there was going to be a link I could click on to hear it. If there is where have you hidden it.

sless · Post by **sless** » Sun Apr 15, 2007 6:10 pm

i got my ears blown out today as i was fishing

Babooshka · Post by **Babooshka** » Sun Apr 15, 2007 6:55 pm

Cisco wrote:It's hard to give direction If you don't know the area,

If you know Blackberry Hills, downhill infants backed onto it at the top.

Ah so that's where it is..cheers

i got my ears blown out today as i was fishing

and to think it was sizzling hot inland..you could smell the ozone,
I was stuck inside all bleedin' day - totally gauling

btw did you catch owt??

sless · Post by **sless** » Sun Apr 15, 2007 7:02 pm

bug*er all

Babooshka · Post by **Babooshka** » Sun Apr 15, 2007 7:54 pm

there was a lad fishing at 6.30 in the morning up at Newcastle the other day, it was that freezing cold morning, he had 2 rods going but more noticable he was drinking a bottle of beer..no flask of hot tea there

sless · Post by **sless** » Sun Apr 15, 2007 8:01 pm

i never drink and fish
i always have a drink when im finished
to dangerous

Babooshka · Post by **Babooshka** » Sun Apr 15, 2007 9:54 pm

sless wrote:i never drink and fish
i always have a drink when im finished
to dangerous

you're not kidding there

captain beefheart · Post by **captain beefheart** » Fri Apr 20, 2007 7:24 pm

the bloke drinking beer when fishing reminds me of the Likely Lads film where Terry is fishing on North Shields pier and Bob is having a crisis, classic film, one of the best

sless · Post by **sless** » Sat Apr 21, 2007 2:27 pm

dont get me wrong
i love drinking aswell

adb1969 · Post by **adb1969** » Sun Nov 03, 2013 9:27 pm

Having moved away from Shields in the late 70s, it brings back memories of souter foghorn reading this! Playing on the Leas on foggy nights, I'm sure the ground used to shake when the foghorn blast ended with the lower pitch 'grunt'! Used to find it a bit scary sometimes, going home from the leas along bamburgh avenue, used to run all the way!

The siren and blasting at lizard lane quarry used to scare me too!

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