Secret South Shields

[Babooshka]

ahh it's good to read about this, my friend was just asking me the other day were the open air baths used to be in S/Shields.
Blow the quaser crap up and reinstate the pool, NT Council have made a complete balls up of Tynemouth open air baths by filling it with boulders, that combined with the ever rusting railings makes it a bloody eye sore..
I wish they'd renovate it properly and us hard Norveners could take a dip in it again..(bobbing around the dead flies and dog ends)

happy memories of being with my mam and nana sitting on the steps as I screamed "Maaammm watch us dive in"

[jimmywizz]

babs the saltwater baths under the quasar are not the same open air baths which were about a 100yards down from the pier, brian c the chippy burnt down and has now reopend in the arcade

[baldy.smith]

I've actually been in that swimming pool, but it was empty and unused at the time, they demolished it a few years later. It was just one big mass of concrete.

[jimmywizz]

when anyone asks you to name the parks in South Shields who ever thinks of adding the dell at Cleadon ? South Shields very own secret park that seem to be in a bit of a time warp, below is a photo of the park in its hayday many moons ago and below is picture from around that area today

[jimmywizz]

the old parks bogs, blocked of many years ago, i wonder whats inside today ? owt worth flogging on ebay ?

[jimmywizz]

i have passed this house in the park and had a look at it a few times not sure but was it built from recycled materials from the old hall in the park ?

[jimmywizz]

this last photo is alls that left of what i think was the gates into cleadon park sanatorium you can just make out 2 columns with globes on the top of them in someones backgarden

[Cisco]

i have passed this house in the park and had a look at it a few times not sure but was it built from recycled materials from the old hall in the park ?

I've worked on that house Jimmy, that shot is the pathway at the back of the house.
It was an elderly couple who had it at the time, I think it was called the lodge house.

Cisco

[robpapE2]

[quote="jimmywizz"]this last photo is alls that left of what i think was the gates into cleadon park sanatorium you can just make out 2 columns with globes on the top of them in someones backgarden

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My Uncle George was one of the last patients to d*e at the Sanatorium an all I can and I can remember him being high on morphine and a bloody big stair case in the middle of the hall....

[jimmywizz]

there was a post on here a few years ago of someone asking for old photos of the hall but non ever turned up

[captain beefheart]

pilot, i thought the seaplane ramp was at the end of the beach at trow rocks, seems a bit daft though as they would be trying to take off in lumpy seas

[captain beefheart]

pilot may be rightt about the ramp on herd sands, see url below

http://www.abct.org.uk/page_1218.html

[jimmywizz]

this is a photo of the old police phone at whiteleas, i think its the only one left in the town as far as i know, and i guess that there will not be many left in the country as these phones were put on housing estates before most people could afford to own their own telephone in the house, it should be rescued and sent to a musem before if rusts away to nothing

[Pilot]

You'll not get Billie Piper in there.

[jimmywizz]

lol

[baldy.smith]

That Police phone box was not there when I was a kid, in fact Whiteleas was not there either.

[brian c]

Of course not Baldy.


The Vikings would have pillaged it.

[baldy.smith]

I take it you are back on your home computer now Brian, or are you working Sundays now for all of that extra lolly

[brian c]

Back at home now.

New computer.

New broadband.

New everything.



BEWARE

[memor]

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