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1950s 1960s 1970s 1980s 1990s 2000s 2010s, You went along to the dairy and bought your milk from the churn. Right lads, give it plenty of wind. The site is now a Lidl supermarket. "Oh, there's plenty of time for sleep when you're laid out", she'd say. When the Procession of Witness came past we always stopped what we were doing. It was taken in 1965. in Tyne and Wear. It was taken in 1966. I thought it was the countryside - it was all fields! A colliery house, a large living room with a ladder staircase up to the sleeping area. [20] In 1909, the first Arab Seamen's Boarding House opened in the Holborn riverside district of the town. Room 11b, The Linskill Centre The port in South Shields employed men of Yemen, Aden, Somalia, African, Indian and Malaysian nationalities. All images courtesy of Tyne & Wear Archives & Museums. While, the 1860s-built Criterion, on Ocean Road, closed in 2012 to become a Ladbrokes bookmaker, before reopening in 2018 after enjoying a major refurbishment recreating how it originally looked in. The Roman garrison built a fort here around AD 160[2] and expanded it around AD 208 to help supply their soldiers along Hadrian's Wall as they campaigned north beyond the Antonine Wall. Industries have come and gone, and the physical make-up of the town is much altered. The town's museum & art gallery, includes a permanent exhibition dedicated to the life and times of Catherine Cookson. Their marriage was re-arranged to the Friday because the foot handicap finals were held the next day. Only one bomb hit us, but horribly it was plumb on the focsle. We dreaded the nit nurse, but she was not as bad as your mother armed with the dickey comb. Peter Lish left the ABC South Shields in July 1980 and I (who had . According to the 2011 census, the town had a population of 75,337. . I then let down the hem of my evening skirt, which had been pinned up clear of the bicycle chain with safety pins. My mother used to let me keep the tiddlers in an old bowl in the back garden. There is a mosque at Laygate, including the Yemeni School, which was visited by American boxer Muhammad Ali in 1977. The platform at the former South Shields Metro station is situated on a bridge directly above King Street the town's main shopping area. It was originally intended that the North (Tynemouth) Pier and lighthouse would mirror their South Shields counterparts, but a series of breaches and collapses meant that the North Pier was completed much later and to a different design. On Remembrance Day we used to march from the British Legion Club to Benton Church with the Cubs and Scouts. childhood house-home my-life pastimes-entertainment schooldays shops-shopping working-life. Past. Cleadon Hills are made conspicuous by the Victorian Cleadon Water Tower and pumping station (opened in 1860 to improve sanitation)[citation needed] and a now derelict windmill, both of which are listed and can be seen from many miles away and also out at sea. You know that lad, he wants to meet you, but I said, I dont know him!. One day we thought we would get some slabs and sell them uncut from the shop, I think our venture only lasted a couple of days and we only made a few bob. It is within the historic county boundaries of County Durham. It was taken in 1962. When I was 15 years old I went to the Maternity Hospital on the Green, Wallsend as a nurse cadet. There is evidence that the site was used in the early post-Roman period as a British settlement. [28], In 2008, a critically acclaimed exhibition about the South Shields Yemeni community was held entitled The Last of the Dictionary Men Stories from South Shields Yemeni Sailors, was held at the Baltic Centre for Contemporary Art, Gateshead. A great success with over 700 people attending. If you wanted early morning tea it was 6d (2.5p) per person and if you had meals served in your bedroom it was an extra 1/- (5p). We would have races and snowball fights and all things like this. childhood pastimes-entertainment transport. Good Fridays always stand out in my memory because that was the day we marched round the town. The Yemeni are the first, settled Muslim community in Britain and have been used to justify multiculturalism.[25]. This is a 35mm slide. We had lots and lots of boxes of matches - enough to set Wallsend on fire I should think. Local bus routes are operated by Stagecoach North East and Go North East, which are planned to integrate with Metro services. 1884-1932 The Shields Daily Gazette and Shipping Telegraph. If you are a resident of another country or region, please select the appropriate version of Tripadvisor for your country or region in the drop-down menu. This photograph is part of a set that has been created to celebrate the opening of South Tyneside Council's new leisure centre, Haven Point, on 28 October. In Egypt the camp had three large search lights and around the perimeter fence were forty dugouts with a guard in each one. As soon as the toilets moved inside and everyone got automatic washers, there was nothing to go outside for anymore. For all of that I got 5/- a week. The undertaker went as pale as the corpse and a fierce argument began. At home, we had mountains of sheet music and my parents always held musical gatherings in their home, with other friends who were musicians. I've always liked a wander by fields and hedgerow, having roamed around Billy Mill district in my childhood. 1930s 1940s 1950s 1960s 1970s 1980s 1990s 2000s, Ten-year-olds would carry glass jars full of sulphuric acid to and from the shops and no-one thought anything of it. Our mothers would send us for hot water to the kiosk for their tea - we had pop. The decade also brought rock n roll and late nights out on the town, allowing young people to experience the new nightclubs opening up in the area. I was always in the top section of the class and passed my eleven plus when the time came. South Shields Town Hall was built. The 1950s proved to be a period of great change in South Shields, when residents were beginning to put their lives back together after the Second World War. Watch. The town has a local independent political party, the Progressive Party. Now finally let me introduce our Picture Palace, if my memory serves me right it was a building with a tin roof. South Shields ( English: / ilz /) is a coastal town in South Tyneside, Tyne and Wear, England. The town hosts traditional, continental and farmers' markets and has high street of shops. This is a 35mm slide. At the same time the South Shields lights were themselves fully automated, with the addition of standby diesel alternators and automatic lamp changers. Sometimes I would run to school and use the bus fare to buy sweets or broken biscuits at Kidd's shop. We were young and indestructible. We want to find out more about my dad's naval career. Our family was poor as pee but all I remember is having fun. It was taken in 1963. Tripadvisor performs checks on reviews. On moon nights, barrels were put along streets and smoke making stuff was burned in them so the enemy couldn't see clearly. [22], After World War II, the Yemeni population declined, partly due to migrations to other industrial areas such as Birmingham, Liverpool and Sheffield. We used to get the bus to the Central Station and then the electric train from there to Tynemouth. I shared a double bed with my sister, who was seven years older than me and she took a very dim view of the new arrangements. After we'd made them, boogies used to be pushed, pulled and ridden for mile after mile. Its not bad, not very big but does our town, good place for the kids. 6 photo books on South Shields and the surrounding area. From 1985 to 2009 the area marketed itself as "Catherine Cookson Country", which attracted many visitors. This is a 35mm slide. Our childhood memories remain the best, the happy times, fantastic, It was used as an air-raid shelter during World War II. Play in the arcades or the We went to the funpark but it was closed. Everyone used to get excited about Good Friday coming along. Whether it be the presence of Romans in ancient times, the arrival of a vibrant Arab population, or the towns industrial past, South Shields has a diverse history. More recently this has included primarily the town centre, riverside and foreshore areas, given the decline of once-traditional heavy industries with the town's growing importance as a major commercial centre and tourist destination. 1960s. By 1961 another two farmers had lost most of their land and a great new estate was thriving on it. Then we come to the jewel in the crown - "The Chute". We all spent the day together it was wonderful it always seemed to be long sunny days just like the Riviera. The five guinea investment in the mongoose proved to be finest investment the store ever made. The memory entitled Childhood in Howdon and Willington Quay brings back some very happy memories - strange how seeing something like that tugs at the old heart strings. The majority of the people living in South Shields are descendants of those who migrated and settled in the area during the Industrial Revolution in order to work in expanding coalmines and shipyards. My first recollection of WW2 is standing at the door with my mam watching the searchlights. White Picture. This is a 35mm slide. I had to be sure and take my Van Lad's hat, the status symbol that proved I was part of the team. The college was also home to the only planetarium in the region, and to an observatory; and in its time was a popular visitor attraction for local schools and visitors in general. Gustav, our milkman, was a minesweeper sailor from Konigsberg. The Callers department store name is spelt out in festive lights. A cold water tap in the backyard had to serve about four or five families. Jane Alice and Willie A Love for a Lifetime, Jeans Memories of the Rising Sun Hospital, Kathleens Memories of Growing up in Tottenham, Living on the fringes of Tyneside in the late 1930s, Longbenton Methodist Church Foundation Stone Laying 1955, Memories of a Wartime Wedding and Honeymoon, Memories of an Air Raid Protection Warden, Memories of Margaret Pederson-Carlson (nee Nicholson), Memories of My Childhood Playing and Entertainment, Memories of Scaffold Hill Isolation Hospital, Memories of St Josephs Primary School, Chirton, North Shields, 1956 1962, Memories of Trinity Street, North Shields, Miss Edwina Chatt, Teacher at Murton School, Miss Laverick, Western Board School (1955), Nancys Memories of Growing up and Going to Work, Shiremoor County Modern School 1948 1952, Shopping in North Shields as a Child in the 1940s, Shops in Saville Street and Bedford Street, North Shields, St Johns Ambulance Brigade in the mid-1930s, Sunday School and Early Church in Longbenton, The Childhood and Adolescent Years of Les Birkett, The Launch of the Dominion Monarch 27th July 1938, The Pantomime at the Wesleyan Church Hall, Percy Main, The Saga of the Dredger, Beaver Mackenzie, 1975, Tynemouth Borough Police Annual Inspection of Vehicles, 1964, Vivs Memories of Growing up in Sheffield, West Allotment Life in a Mining Village, Working and shopping in post-war North Shields, When the ship sailed you could say I helped build that., health local-history my-life other transport working-life. When we went to the firing range we had a target made of paper with a mans silhouette on it, floating in the air. You can go on the rides. I used to wonder why she had never married again. In South Shields, 6.7% of the population are from an ethnic minority (non white British), compared with 5.0% in the surrounding borough of South Tyneside. We would cry, plead and beg for the money to go, asking neighbours if they needed messages, hoping for a tip and looking all over for empty pop bottles as they had a twopenny deposit on them. There was a parrot which used to sit on the gate. The dress you got had no sleeves and was made of cotton. I was born in my grandparents' home. Pevsner, The Buildings of England County Durham, 1953, 1983. The manager took pity on us and offered us a barn with clean straw by way of accommodation. It was taken in 1964. The new church was open in time for Easter Sunday 1956. for our site. When the coalman came you had to run out and take all the washing back in again. It is on the south bank of the mouth of the River Tyne. There is a National Express coach service direct to London. If the dock yard lads were running late they would give two whistles and the little Brigham & Cowan's launch would come over and take them back to the south side. childhood house-home my-life shops-shopping. The training was hard, with a 57 hour week, a half day off once a fortnight, all for 7. 1925, 3-Map Boxed Set [17] Nearly all of the ethnic minority population in South Tyneside is concentrated in South Shields town centre and suburban areas immediately to the south such as Rekendyke and Westoe. The last shipbuilder, John Readhead & Sons, closed in 1984 and the last pit, Westoe Colliery, closed in 1993. My mother used to say if you go to the Fish Quay Sands and get drowned, Ill murder you. We covered the shelter with soil from the park and my dad put an armour plated door on it. Sign up for our newsletters. 15 memories of South Shields to read. This is a 35mm slide. See 15 rare images of South Shields from the 1920s to the 1990s which will feature as part of a screening at The Customs House in January, Muhammad Ali visit in 1977: one of the fascinating images from the bill going on show at The Customs House in South Shields, Places and faces 1954 - Marsden Rock: one of the fascinating images from the bill going on show at The Customs House in South Shields, South Shields Road Safety (c.1950) - one of the fascinating images from the bill going on show at The Customs House in South Shields, The Passing of a Tyne ferry - one of the fascinating images from the bill going on show at The Customs House in South Shields, The Passing of a Tyne ferry 1972 - one of the fascinating images from the bill going on show at The Customs House in South Shields, Catherine Cookson - one of the fascinating images from the bill going on show at The Customs House in South Shields, Palmers Hebburn: one of the fascinating images from the bill going on show at The Customs House in South Shields, My River Tyne, 1986: one of the fascinating images from the bill going on show at The Customs House in South Shields, A World of My Own, James Mitchell 1969 - one of the fascinating images from the bill going on show at The Customs House in South Shields, Opening of the St. Aloysius Infant School, Hebburn - a fascinating image from the bill going on show at The Customs House in South Shields, South Shields road safety, circa 1950: one of the fascinating images from the bill going on show at The Customs House in South Shields, Palmers Hebburn, 1949: one of the fascinating images from the bill going on show at The Customs House in South Shields, Popworld launch 'search' for Newcastle United fan with offer of free bar tab after flag tribute, Popworld Newcastle took to Facebook in a bid to track down a NUFC fan who was at the Manchester City game, Iceland announce closures of UK stores from today - full list, A UK staple since 1970, several of the frozen food stores will be shutting up shop for good over the next few weeks, 'It feels great!' Afterwards you can have fish and chips or go to Ocean Road for a curry or Minchellas for coffee and ice cream. This is a 35mm slide. it was taken in 1966. An example of the police/community interaction and relationship that existed in earlier years. If you took the lemonade bottle back you got a penny. [100][101] In 2005 they had an Intermediate Cup run and got to Twickenham but were beaten by Morley R.F.C. It was taken in 1962. There suddenly appeared a young boy pedalling furiously on his new bicycle! I thought, Im terribly out of control here. one or two to get you started! The trouble was getting the money off the clients after Christmas. Any child who had freckles could get in free. Going to "the threepenny squash" picture house. Longbenton was one big, muddy building site! Every ship that went up or down the river came past our house. [41] The lighthouse currently displays an occulting sector light with white, red and green sectors; the green sector is used to indicate safe waters near the coast to the north of Tynemouth, while red indicates an area with numerous wrecks to the east and south of the lighthouse. The casino in La Strada (photo courtesy of Rob Quinn) 1963 advertisement for La Strada (courtesy of Rob Quinn) flexible offerings for business. One winters day the travellers were so cosy in the waiting room that they were unaware of the train having stopped, and then moved on! We just romped about the place as youngsters never thinking of time we just played and played and played. Because of my experience I worked at Tynemouth Infirmary. As I was the oldest girl at home after my sister married, I left school at 15 and had to stay at home to help our mother. Approximately 1 in 4 of these men was of Yemeni background. In 2001, the population of South Shields was 82,854. 1900s 1910s 1920s 1930s 1940s 1950s 1960s. ", Wind blown sand drifts o'er the strand, Where once the "Plaza" it did stand, A pleasure palace built years ago, To entertain both high and low. Health warnings there were none. Website hand-made by Frith, since 1998. The UKs leading archive and publisher of local photographs As always you can unsubscribe at any time. . Weeds were cleared off the quays and slipways, tools were unpacked and sharpened. We had to find them. We had crinolines made out of crepe paper and soldier's jackets made out of a piece of red mattress covering. On this Wikipedia the language links are at the top of the page across from the article title. 9 shillings a month. celebrations-events childhood pastimes-entertainment schooldays. Historically, it was known in Roman times as Arbeia, and as Caer Urfa by Early Middle Ages. My war brought loss of a different kind, not the loss of a death, but the loss of division no less formidable in its onslaught. We didnt play games, we couldnt because the beach was absolutely packed with people, you had to see it to believe it; this was before the war about 1938/39. Send a personal message with a photo to anyone, anywhere. This is a 35mm slide. The snowman my granddad built for me lasted for weeks. The illuminated, wall mounted Nativity scene in Eldon Square, Newcastle upon Tyne. childhood house-home shops-shopping working-life. childhood house-home my-life transport working-life. There were only two kinds of ointment so you can see our treatment was very basic. It serves as the headquarters of South Tyneside Council. When the bath was out the cleanest (least dirty) members of the family got bathed first, leaving grandad to get in last, with all his coal dirt. In the event of a power cut, each bell was designed to keep ringing for a further six hours. Colliery. Long-term plans by Nexus to re-open the former Sunderland to South Shields line between Tyne Dock, Brockley Whins and East Boldon would create a direct rail service between South Shields and Sunderland[citation needed], without the need for passengers to change trains at Pelaw in Gateshead. A third time was not required most of the time as us kids used to put our full weight on the mangle rolling handle to get it to turn, often with your feet off the ground, bouncing like mad to get it to turn. There is a good choice of restaurants, cafes, public houses and nightlife as well as hotels, guest houses and caravan parks in and around the town. Once war came the beaches were all closed off. Ephemeral, disposable, they served only one purposeto let someone know "I'm here. I went to Queen Victoria School. I was released from Scaffold Hill isolation hospital, with the hope of never returning to what seemed more like a prison than a hospital. On my journey from London to North Shields, if I stopped every fifty miles, I would have difficulty conversing with the locals. DT.TUR/2/27286). In her delightful accent, one child said to the other, "come here now Mhari - don't disturb the wee man - he's a real artist". since 1860. It cost 5/- and she carried it home over her head. No hospital exam was necessary then. We loved fishing from the staithes, tying large cod heads to a length of string, leaving them on the bottom for a time and then pulling them up to see if you had any crabs clinging to them. Wed go down wearing a swimsuit. He built a model Mississippi paddle steamer in his garage workshop. As the title of the group indicates, please ensure any images and posts have local historical content. It shows the illuminated Christmas windows of the Westoe Road cooperative store in South Shields. childhood holidays pastimes-entertainment. South Shields is the home of two rugby union clubs, South Shields RFC and Westoe RFC. Im still friendly with some of them now. Pat Watters, chief of the Newcastle Gateshead brigade, said the blaze was the biggest in Central Newcastle for many years, and it was made all the worse, he said, because the furniture in Callers shop was highly flammable., It was the start of one of the biggest blazes ever to hit the City Centre, and was to cost the Callers 2m, a massive amount 44 years ago. When the bluebells are up the air is scented and wonderful. See the She was dressed all in black, quite frightening to us, but it never put us off buying her toffee. The Bangladeshi community is the third largest in the North East of England. I could see the lake frozen over and thought it was worth the hike. This is a 35mm slide. English: View of a band playing at the Majestic Ballroom, South Shields, September 1961 (TWAM ref. During the sermon I would dream of what I would do when I was older and the places I would visit, London, Africa and America. I have no qualms about the good old days for I am pleased I was there for the ride. South Shields is bounded by the A19 trunk road to the West and situated close to the Tyne Tunnel at Jarrow. I have a snapshot of myself, looking so smug you would think I had produced her myself. read more, We went to the funpark but it was closed. my-life shops-shopping transport working-life. The South Pier was finished in 1895 and its lighthouse was operational that same year (it was equipped with a third-order fixed optic and a clockwork occulting mechanism, by Chance Brothers & Co.). The first showing of these films was on a white bed sheet propped up at the bottom of the yard. It was the flagship, HMS Ark Royal, the biggest ship in the Royal Navy. I went to St Cuthbert's in the West End of Newcastle, but my local friends all went to Longbenton High. The highlight of the event was raiding other peoples bonfires, pinching stuff when they werent guarding it, but best of all setting fire to one. My father wasn't impressed - he was busy with the roses in the front garden. Now and again they would give us an apple and an orange. One of the most historic parts of the town is the quaint and beautiful Westoe village, which consists of a quiet street of first grade and second grade Georgian and Victorian houses, many of which had been built by business leaders from the coal and shipping industries in the town. [37], A notable landmark in the town is the reconstructed Roman fort and excavations of the ancient Arbeia Roman Castra. It dawned on me I was being trained to be a housewife. If I wanted to buy a dress I went to Bell Bros. or D Hill Carter. In 1832, with the Great Reform Act, South Shields and Gateshead were each given their own Member of Parliament and became boroughs, resulting in taxes being paid to the Government instead of the Bishops of Durham. There would be clouds of dust coming off and God only knows what else, probably fleas, bugs, etc. This is a 35mm slide. The first-foot had to be tall dark and masculine. The Metro network serves South Tyneside, Gateshead, Newcastle, North Tyneside, Sunderland and Newcastle Airport. This is a 35mm slide. It was taken in 1962. Anyone living along the line could hitch a ride from Backworth down to Percy Main! In the winter, shirts used to get stiff with the cold; you could take them off the line and stand them up in the kitchen. You can browse through the collection or, if youre looking for something specific, you can use the search facility below. The big change came in 1966 when the firm acquired a computer. Giant leeks were put on show after much secret feeding and top dressing.

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