Youth Club

baldy.smith · Post by **baldy.smith** » Thu Nov 30, 2006 6:59 pm

Anyone remember the youth club which was above the "Golden Lion".
If I remember correctly it was called "North Street Youth Cub". It was run bt a guy called John Ray.

robpapE2 · Post by **robpapE2** » Mon Dec 18, 2006 11:32 pm

Sorry o wise one ..I can only remember the Bader Boys Club in Beach Road
during the sixties ..after that it was drinking ..young liberals

and it was all down hill after that ...A common sad but true tale of a young man gone wrong !!!!!! Youth clubs were designed to keep us on the straight and narrow ..but failed to keep us from evil

after that it was blues folk and wild wild hippy music !!!!!!

anna · Post by **anna** » Mon Feb 26, 2007 12:39 am

can anybody recall Tyne Dock Youth Club..

jimmywizz · Post by **jimmywizz** » Mon Feb 26, 2007 1:36 am

tyne dock youth club, best in shields anna, i still see one of the old leaders in the sima club on a sunday

anna · Post by **anna** » Mon Feb 26, 2007 7:53 am

yes,,had some good times there.I lived at Marsden,but i used to get bus down to tyne dock,as some of my friends lived round there..It was always scarey going home tho,,them streets were dark.

Barney · Post by **Barney** » Mon Feb 26, 2007 2:28 pm

I remember Tyne Dock YC, although I didn't go there very often.
I was chairman of the Council of Youth for a few years, and used to visit a lot of the yc's, like TD, St Hilda's, Horsely Hill CC, Biddick Hall (which I think had another name), the YMCA, and the Yellow Hut in Whiteleas.

TD was one of the newer buildings, so had good facilities.

captain beefheart · Post by **captain beefheart** » Mon Feb 26, 2007 7:26 pm

what was the club off quarry lane called ??

Jarrow Pete · Post by **Jarrow Pete** » Mon Feb 26, 2007 8:31 pm

Was it part of St Marks church. Before I got married at St Marks in 72 I and my wife had to go and see the Rev John Maughn to have talks with him about our commitment to each other. I remember it was about this time that someone burnt the youth club down and the Rev told me if he got a hold of whoever did it he would give them a good hiding, I think it was hearing that a man of God was human and thought the same way as I did that kindled my interest in the church.

Cisco · Post by **Cisco** » Mon Feb 26, 2007 8:48 pm

I've mentioned Tyne Dock youth club in a previous posting.
I was a member there in the early sixties, had some good times there.

Anna I also used to get the bus from Marsden to Tyne Dock, if I remember correctly it was the number 34 bus which used to go from Lizzard Lane Marsden through to the Bede Trading Estate, on the way back the girls from the factory there use to be on that bus, it was quite an experience getting home on that bus

jarrajock · Post by **jarrajock** » Mon Feb 26, 2007 8:50 pm

room for one more

Pilot · Post by **Pilot** » Mon Feb 26, 2007 8:54 pm

jarrow pete, its quite amusing to think that your priest/vicar offering someone a good hiding kindled you interest in religion!

Barney · Post by **Barney** » Mon Feb 26, 2007 8:54 pm

captain beefheart wrote:what was the club off quarry lane called ??

I believe it was called St Marks & St Cuthberts. I don't think it had anything to do with St Cuthbert's school, though, as their YC was St Bede's, in the Parochial Hall on Imeary Street.

anna · Post by **anna** » Mon Feb 26, 2007 10:17 pm

Cisco wrote:I've mentioned Tyne Dock youth club in a previous posting.
I was a member there in the early sixties, had some good times there.

Anna I also used to get the bus from Marsden to Tyne Dock, if I remember correctly it was the number 34 bus which used to go from Lizzard Lane Marsden through to the Bede Trading Estate, on the way back the girls from the factory there use to be on that bus, it was quite an experience getting home on that bus

cisco, i bet we sat on same bus,, not sure what num bus it was ,, and can you remeber the economic bus,,that used to run along the coast,, it always had a strange smell,,but the seat were comfy,compaired to other buses,

Cisco · Post by **Cisco** » Tue Feb 27, 2007 4:48 pm

cisco, i bet we sat on same bus,,
You never know Anna.
I remember the old Economics well, used to use them a lot.
Very intimate atmosphere on those buses.

Delilahcat · Post by **Delilahcat** » Wed Feb 28, 2007 12:12 am

St Cuthberts church was in King George Road on the other side to The White Ensign pub and the youth club there was a wooden hut. When the church was demolished the parish became St Mark and St Cuthbert when the new church was built in Quarry Lane. St Marks church was at Laygate.
I used to go to St Marys Youth club at Tyne Dock and was eventually helped run the club.

Babooshka · Post by **Babooshka** » Wed Feb 28, 2007 11:35 am

I was a member of Tyne Dock Youth club too and loved going there.

We used to get the Economic bus to Sunderland on the way to my nannas, they were a dark blue colour I'm sure, with nice comfortable leather seats and lots of polished chrome. Don't recall these buses being intimate tho'

mind you at age 6 you don't understand these things.

baldy.smith · Post by **baldy.smith** » Wed Feb 28, 2007 11:59 am

The Economic Buses were Maroon in colour with a broad cream strip!

They were more comfortable than the other buses because most of them were "coaches" as opposed to buses.

brian c · Post by **brian c** » Wed Feb 28, 2007 12:21 pm

If I remember rightly Baldy---Northern busses were Maroon, Newcastle Corporation busses were Yellow and Cream and Sunderland Corporation busses were Blue and Cream.

I now await being shot to pieces over my bad memory.

Jim_in_France · Post by **Jim_in_France** » Wed Feb 28, 2007 12:34 pm

No Brian. Northern buses were red. Economic were macaroon!

baldy.smith · Post by **baldy.smith** » Wed Feb 28, 2007 12:37 pm

Sunderland buses were green and cream!

Shields buses were blue and cream.

Northern buses are still the colour they have always been, red.

Still you got Newcastle right brian