Local History for Tyne & Wear
plewsy
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by plewsy » Sun Oct 25, 2009 10:51 am
this is the garage my dad used to work in ,at westoe ,also the county pub ,1939
plewsy
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by plewsy » Sun Oct 25, 2009 11:14 am
heres the same view in 2009
sadly the garage has gone
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Jarrow Pete
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by Jarrow Pete » Sun Oct 25, 2009 1:22 pm
They used to be British Leyland dealers, my first company vehicle was a Leyland 350FG and used to take it to them for servicing from new in 1969 till it was replaced in 1976 with over 200.000 miles on clock.Cannot remember the petrol pumps at the front of garage though.
plewsy
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by plewsy » Sun Oct 25, 2009 5:51 pm
my dad would of done your care then
Axeman
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by Axeman » Mon Oct 26, 2009 4:15 pm
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One of my ex school mates worked there as a mechanic..
Ian Sanderson..nicknamed...Spanner.
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Jarrow Pete
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by Jarrow Pete » Mon Oct 26, 2009 6:54 pm
One of my mates worked there as well. Keith Maskell.
mr-angry
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by mr-angry » Mon Oct 26, 2009 9:03 pm
Very good photo, I was brought up a few streets down in Morpeth Avenue, so I remember that garage very well. =D>
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Eddy
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by Eddy » Thu Jan 07, 2010 2:22 pm
Remember Derek Taws & Peter Johnstone? Peter was a foreman mech. Derek was an apprentice in the early 50's - Later joined the RN as 3rd.Eng.
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jimmywizz
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by jimmywizz » Fri Jan 08, 2010 12:12 am
was there also a garage like this in Imery Street as i think as a kid i can remember my uncle working at the pumps
homesick
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by homesick » Fri Jan 08, 2010 1:03 pm
I think the garage you mean sold Vauxhall cars but I can't remember the name.
Jarrow Pete
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by Jarrow Pete » Fri Jan 08, 2010 7:55 pm
homesick wrote: I think the garage you mean sold Vauxhall cars but I can't remember the name.
Was it Adams and Gibbons, can remember the pumps where set back inside and an overhead hose on a boom dispensed petrol into cars.
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by jimmywizz » Sat Jan 09, 2010 12:18 am
i think thats the one pete
westoelad
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by westoelad » Fri Aug 06, 2010 8:08 pm
I have walked past that garage a few times, and I can still here the frightening barks and growls of the two Alsatians dogs that roamed along the fire escape stairs at the rear of the County. They were like two grissly bears that burst into life when ever anyone walked by.
sless
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by sless » Sat Aug 07, 2010 3:00 pm
westoelad wrote: I have walked past that garage a few times, and I can still here the frightening barks and growls of the two Alsatians dogs that roamed along the fire escape stairs at the rear of the County. They were like two grissly bears that burst into life when ever anyone walked by.
i remember them dogs
at the time a lass i went to school with
her dad ran the county
she was called mellina manning
Stout
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by Stout » Sat Aug 07, 2010 5:31 pm
sless wrote: mellina manning
Punk lass aye?
Me old mate Deansy also worked at the garage after he left school, he died a few years back after he came off his motorbike.
Larna
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by Larna » Fri Oct 08, 2010 11:06 pm
Wasn't there a Harry Abernethy there in the 60's?
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by Larna » Fri Oct 08, 2010 11:08 pm
Jarrow Pete wrote: homesick wrote: I think the garage you mean sold Vauxhall cars but I can't remember the name.
Was it Adams and Gibbons, can remember the pumps where set back inside and an overhead hose on a boom dispensed petrol into cars.
I think there was a Ken Chamberlain at Adams & Gibbon in the seventies.
novomobile
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by novomobile » Wed Nov 03, 2010 12:29 pm
Used to buy my cars from Selwoods Ford garage at the nook in the middle seventies.I remember Ossie Clark and Jeff Fenwick the two car salesmen,and the petrol sold on the forecourt was provided by an attendent...no self service then.