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The old building next to the Crown was originally a school mainly for the children of railway workers. My grandma who was born in the early 1880s went there. It was replaaced by St Marys school in Whitehead St and I believe it was used as an Ambulance Hall. My daughter went to dancing classes there ...

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By the way there is a very good DVD out called Tyne Dock Borders. It features the man who had STARS record shop and many other scenes of Tyne Dock life...the youth club,St Marys church etc. The library has copies on sale.

You forgot to mention polio which killed and disabled so many children...also diptheria,whooping cough and of course measles killed off a lot of children. Just because we survived did not mean childhood was perfect. We were just lucky. Grandma lost 6 out of 12 kids.

I can remember one in the area which we used to go to on our way from Derby St baths.There was a pulley bank in that area too.

There is an excellent DVD out called Tyne Dock Borders. Will be of great interest to anyone who lived there. Made by a lad called Gary Wilkinson. Saw it at Shields library. There is a show on Monday 16 April.

I can remember as a very small child attending my cousin's wedding in the winter of 1947. We came out of the reception and the snow was so deep my dad had to carry me. My husband was 11 in 1947 and he remembered walking down New Road in Boldon Colliery behind the snowplough to get to school. In 1963...

You are absolutely right. A long time ago.

Dennis will be about 59 now. He lives in York these days. My aunties flat was an upstairs one. They eventually moved to Landseer Gardens in Whiteleas.

My aunt used to live at number 18 Taylor Street in the fifties. Her name was Winnie Carter.Her son was called Dennis.

I lived near Taylor Street. I recall a David Munden who would be about my age now,67 who lived in the area.

Lynn I am considerably older than you but remember Miss Hails from my days at the Girls Grammar School. My daughter went to King George from 78 to 85 and imagine my surprise when who should I see at parents night but Miss Hails who taught me twenty years previously.Also remember Dr Mac but I did not...

With regard to the pharmacy. Like Mr Smith I can remember Dawsons on Laygate where my grandma used to buy Ginger Wine essence then Darkes which was further down past the Eureka pub and across the road from Frederick Street Methodist church. I have a vague feeling there might have been a branch of Ma...

I guess the episode you are thinking of involved an 'arab' lad. I think it was supposed to be in Shields but the filming was done in Ireland. The later series was filmed in the North East.

Still got my own teeth which I attribute to sweet rationing in my formative years. Read on the papers over the weekend that the manufacturers of Highland Toffee ( or Coo Candy as it's known in Scotland because of the picture on the wrapper ) are in financial difficulties. Would not dare tackle a bar...

If my memory is correct SICO was a sort of cash and carry place which supplied shops. The name was an amalgamation of the owners might have been something like SIdney COser...this is just from memory. The Charlie I knew who had the shop ...never knew his surname...was a bit of a miserable so and so....

My dad Jack Rossiter worked at Taylor's Foundry for over fifty years. We lived in South Eldon Street and the main Newcastle to Shields railway ran on a bridge across the street. The railway embankment we called the batteries. A couple of youngsters got killed there so we were warned to keep away by ...

As I mentioned I didn't live in the Dean Road area until 1963 but as a child lived in South Eldon Street opposite St Marys church. It was a different world then and kids used to roam far and wide. A lot of my friends lived on or around Dean Road and we'd play around there. The pictures of the snow b...

My uncle,George Lynn used to work for Hanlons as a manager and they were taken over by Moores. I did not live in Malvern street until 1963 but used to have friends around Dean Terrace, a girl called Ann Murray who had a brother Eddie or Ted. The name Copping also rings a bell. Used to get my coal fr...

Splodge I forgot to mention that I still see Margaret - who had the corner shop - around the town. Think her sister Doris died. Margaret is in now in her her seventies. The shop that is now the Sutton Trust Office used to be a greengrocers run by a rather stout dour woman. Wonder if she was the one ...

I'm surprised at that Pete. The Ugandan Asians were business people and property owners who were wealthy folk. Idi Amin kicked them out and confiscated their wealth and property. The majority of them went to the Midlands where they had family connections and rebuilt their fortunes. Can't imagine any...