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Hewson Street
I grew up in Hewson street, my parents were Peggy and Ernie Gills and we lived in our grandparents house (Meggie and Bill (Scotty) Jackson). I loved a Sunday when all the family would call to see us - the tiny flat would burst at the seams. We were sent to the shop on the corner of the street called Robbies, for broken bicuits and loose butter. We would play in the lane for hours, or go to the park,and then home for a wash in the tin bath. Mondays was wash day and mam and gran would be washing clothes in a poss tub. It had a mangle to squeeze the water out of the clothes. The best fun was when the coal was delivered. They used to dump a ton of coal outside the back door and we used to help shovel it in the coal house, it was hard work, but great fun. The neighbours would borrow a pail of... Read more
Sheriff Hill 1940
I would define the center of Sheriff Hill to be the intersection of Southend Terrace, Windy Nook Road, Sodhouse Bank, and Church Road. I was born not 100ft from the intersection on Windy Nook Road.
Our cottage ajoined the Travellers' Rest; in fact our coalhouse, 'nettie' and later the air raid shelter were abutting the 'Quoit' as it was called. I found out much later that the original name of the Travellers' was in fact The Golden Quoit. Across the road from us, on one corner was Bradshaw's sewing shop selling thread, zippers etc, and down the back, Stainthorp's butcher shop. On another corner was Charnwood's, a grocery shop, and then on the NW corner, Hida's general groceries.
Hilda's husband, I remember was Willie Robertson, the verger and gravedigger at St John's. I remember getting a tongue lashing from him when, as a child, I asked if he ever found a skull, to keep it for me.
Down the bank from Hilda's was Benny the butcher, and then Pegg's shop,... Read more
Childhood Memories
I grew up in Sheriff Hill. My great-gran Margaret Jackson lived on Hewson Street and I lived with my parents in Leeming Gardens in the flats. I used to be sent to the corner shop on Hewson Street. It was called Robbies. We would buy broken biscuits and if my mam was hard up you could run up 'tick' and pay at the end of the week. I used to go to Sheriff Hill School opposite St John's church on Church Road. We had a teacher whose husband was a vicar I think. She wasn't very charitable becase she would grab your cheeks and shake your head from side to side. I then went to Glynwood school. The headmistress was called Mrs Young and my teachers were Miss Burrows, Miss Henderson, Mr Bagley and Mr Waddington. We used to learn maypole dancing and the boys learned sword dancing on the fields at the back of the school. There was an old 'lollypop' man to take us over the road beside the... Read more
Hewson Street
Adding to yesterday's input about Hewson Street in Sheriff Hill; I remember it so well! From the west end, at the square where Billy Howarth had his coal business, I remeber Alan Freeland, and his mother 'Boxer.' Then 'Nutty' and 'Ginger Wood. The next along was a Mr Lewis who had a secondhand shop down Gateshead, then Audrey Reece, whose grandfather was the local bookie, and below them lived the Erringtons (their son Bob was in the Navy and made a rescue mission up the Yangtze River). Next were the Angles and then Eleanor Veitch, and below them my grandparents Jim and Violet Armstrong, and my aunt Jean (who still lives in Sheriff Hill). Then the Hoggs, and he lost an eye working at 'Clarkies,' and above them a great aunt Annie Wales, who was widowed in the First World War. Her son Freddy lived all of his life in Sheriff Hill. Then there were the twins, John and Maureen Hall (no relation - although I met up with John... Read more
Sheriff Hill
I lived in Southend Road from 1940 till 1947 then moved to Kent. My grandparents lived at 16 Charnwood Gardens. I lived with my mother and older brother Byron, my father was away at war and I never saw him until 1945. I went to Glynwood Infants School and remember that I kept running home at lunch times as I hated it. I used to play up what we called 'the cut', off the top of Southend Road and I played in the gardens with Johnny Glasgow. I remember the farmer used to bring his cows down Southend Road to the fields at the bottom, this was before Beacon Lough estaste was built. I also remember the coalman with the stump leg. I lived next door to George Parkinson, his father was a joiner. We played on what was called the first and second fields. I returned back to the north east in 1957 and now live in Durham. Dereck Hobson.
Sheriff Hill
To add to the latest entry, I was born in Sheriff Hill, born on Windy Nook Road, and my grand-parents lived in Hewson Street, and my grand-mother lived on Windy Nook Road. My memories are a little earlier than the last entry. South of Hewson Street was bankies, and I remeber the 'new' houses being built. As kids, we'd sit with the night watchman (mainly to keep warm because he always had a coke fire going). Directly to the North of Hewson Street, before the bankies, there were air raid shelters in front of every house. Most wer neglected, but some had fitted them out with heaters, bunks etc.
But the Causeway Pub was there, and the 'Irish Farm', then I had relatives on Causway Road going down to Pottersway.
Regards, Rob Hall, Katy, TEXAS
Memories
I lived in Hilltop Avenue and remember some of the previous contributors and recall most of the names mentioned.
Some of the things I remember include-
A visit by the late Queen Mother when schoolchildren lined the route throughout the town as she went open the QE Hospital
A visit to St John's church by the American film star,opera singer lawyer and political activist Paul Robeson.I was one of four wolf cubs invited to see his performance from a small balcony at the rear of the church. As a cub then a scout I attended church parade regularly on Sundays.In the afternoon many of us also attended Sunday school at Zion Chapel.
One night there was a storm which blew the church weathervane off:it lay in amongst the gravestones for some years it was bigger than me and was eventually replaced.
