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High Shields
High Shields
As they have pulled everything down now it is very disorientating for what I can remember as a youngster so can somebody tell me where High Shields station was (the first one to say High Shields get a clout round the lugs) was it in the vacinity of Laygate st, and Commercial rd.
Of course Brian, I should have remembered the Metro at Chi. I remember Trinity Church going and of course the bridge is no longer there. I attended Holy Trinity School which was a car repair place the last time I looked in passing, I think it is now down as a warehouse in the A-Z unless the warehouse is another new building.
High Shields
I 'm looking for old photographs of High Shields station. Can anyone help?
High Shields
The memory's are flooding back, I lived in Back Eldon St at High Shields,
aslo in the back lane was Cansfields transport (a trucking firm) also Fenwicks wheel Barrows, and then Gilroys trucking firm, the female potatoe pickers would wait on the corner of the back lane and laygate lane from seven in the morning, Gilroys truck would pick them up and take them out to the farms around Simonside (all country then) picking the potatoes buy hand was a back braking job.
At the back of Trinity Church Yard was a Scout hall, ( I joined them there)
My first job at 14 yrs old was with Welsh Pott's the butcher for 14 shillings a week, then I learned that I could get two pounds ten shillings as a rivet catcher in the Middle Docks so went there. the memory's are flooding back, on a trip back about five or six years ago I found the over head railway bridge gone along with the whole area including Trinity Church it took me awhile to get my bearings, thanks fort he memory's you all take care now. Urfa
aslo in the back lane was Cansfields transport (a trucking firm) also Fenwicks wheel Barrows, and then Gilroys trucking firm, the female potatoe pickers would wait on the corner of the back lane and laygate lane from seven in the morning, Gilroys truck would pick them up and take them out to the farms around Simonside (all country then) picking the potatoes buy hand was a back braking job.
At the back of Trinity Church Yard was a Scout hall, ( I joined them there)
My first job at 14 yrs old was with Welsh Pott's the butcher for 14 shillings a week, then I learned that I could get two pounds ten shillings as a rivet catcher in the Middle Docks so went there. the memory's are flooding back, on a trip back about five or six years ago I found the over head railway bridge gone along with the whole area including Trinity Church it took me awhile to get my bearings, thanks fort he memory's you all take care now. Urfa
G,day from down under, I am an expat from s.s. many years ago, this is a great site keep the good work up Matt
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danecook if you want pal to go train spotting with, look no further than our dear Wizzy.
Its been known for him to found at end of Newcastle Station on a Saturday afternoon in Anorak with little book in hand.
You should see his collection of car registration numbers !!!
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Its been known for him to found at end of Newcastle Station on a Saturday afternoon in Anorak with little book in hand.
You should see his collection of car registration numbers !!!
(141 volumes)
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