Well I lived at both Marsden and Whitburn, and I can tell you that Souter fog horn would be a welcome change from my wife's snoring out here in the countryside.
Yes, I have mentioned it before. It was either you or Village Cat who asked my about it.
I lived in Croftside Estate prefabs (behind the Grey Horse where it is now bungalows) for a few years in the mid fifties.
My mother was resident caretaker at the Barnes Institute for quite a few years before moving to Beech Avenue, where all the young scroats used to pass the house on their way to the school gates, which were about fifty yards from the house.
It must have been the village cat, I know he lives in Whitburn as he has said so.
Beech Ave is all gone now Baldy, Whitburn has changed for the worst now it has to be said.
Ahh I'd forgotten all about Quarry Lane, the yellow bus No. 33 went there from Thornton Avenue when I went up to seem my friends who lived in Fellside. It cost 9p
then we'd go to the Dell in that park
Iused to get that bus to my Aunties in Fellside. It was blue and cream. The old South Shields bus colours. We used to call it the motor bus as opposed to trolley buses which ran on other routes.
I've got a photo of one of the blue buses, taken at the Marsden Inn in the late 1950s.
It shows my father and his conductor, it is posted in the members photo gallery (Old Shields Photos).
