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Drum Industrial Estate maps
Historic maps of Drum Industrial Estate and the local area, hand-drawn by Ordnance Survey and Samuel Lewis. View all Drum Industrial Estate maps
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People And Places
I CAN REMEMBER MANY PEOPLE AND PLACES FROM MY CHILDHOOD LIVING IN 16 PINE ST ,BILL LOAN,LES PEARSON,WILLIE AND TINKER GORDEN,CHRIS LOWERY TO NAME BUT A FEW,AND THE PLACES WE USED TO GO TO ,DOWN "THE LINE" TO THE "GREEN HILL" UP THE OLD FARM TO PLAY JAPS AND ENGLISH OR ACROSS TO THE PIT HEAPS.
OTHER PLACES WERE THE SHIP INN ,MOSSYS SHOP,LONGBONES SHOP,MY MOTHER WORKED IN A CONVERTED CARAVAN THAT WAS PARKED OUTSIDE THE "RANCH"{WORKING MANS CLUB ) SELLING FISH AND CHIPS.MY GRANDAD WAS THE DOORMAN OF THE CLUB FOR A PERIOD OF TIME AND I DO BELIEVE MY RELATIONS HAVE BEEN STEWARDS OF THE CLUB IN THE RECENT PAST.MY MEMORIES STILL GIVE ME A SILENT CHUCKLE WHEN I THINK OF SOME OF THE STUNTS WE PULLED WHEN WE WERE KIDS ,BUT THATS ANOTHER MEMORY FOR ANOTHER DAY
1 Pine Street
My grandfather Thomas Harrison lived there until early 1953. I visited last month but the street no longer exists - was wondering when it was redeveloped.
Sandie Urquhart
Edinburgh
Grange Villa
I used to visit most summer holidays 1950/1955 to stay in West Street with my uncle and aunties and granny, name of Dance. I was friends with George Wadge, Derek Wilkinson, Joe Hackson, Matty Jaques. My cousin Willis still lives locally at Beamish. I am still in touch tiwth Val Collings whose mother looked after me when needed. The football and cricket fown the back street had to stop when the milk cart came or when they came to empty the toilets. I don't know waht kids today would think of this. Great times were had in the villa. I would like to hear from old friends.
Wish to Have A Chance
Not a memory, but here's a tip of the hat from an oldest son of an oldest son, etc, for several generations.
James Pelton
Chicago
THE KITE FLYERS
THE KITE FLYERS The Second World War had just ended before I started school. In that summer the craze in the council estate was for kite flying. Me and my pal Brian used to watch the big lads, Sam,Teddy, Bobby and Ian, flying kites on the Green, just above Murray Road. The kites were made of garden canes split in two, or orange box laths split and shaved down, tied in the middle to form a cross, and the shape was made by tying string from one tip to the next. The frame was covered in newspaper stuck down with flour and water paste. The tail of the kite was a string with bows of newspaper tied on at about a foot apart. The most prize possession was the string. This was “sugar” string which was saved from parcels from the grocers and any where else it could be found . In those days people saved string as it had a lot of uses! I remember that at the... Read more
Pelton Fell Pit
I remember moving to Pelton Fell at about the age of eight, number 9 Ferndene Avenue. The house was new and we were the first to occupy it. There was a small alley at the end of the street that led to the railway line. A small shunting engine ran back and forth along the line from Pelton fell pit to Waldridge. There used to be an engine shed up on the fells near to Waldridge not far from the Swan Inn and Waldridge drift. From my house at night I could hear the compressor throbbing away pushing life giving air down the drift for the miners. Our garden backed onto Scotties farm, as we called it, and we even had the odd cow climb from the field to graze in our back garden. Down on the main road there used to be a little hut on the road where a watchman sat guarding the level crossing and across the road from that there was an old mans seat next to... Read more
TEENAGE YEARS
I didn't live in Chester-le-Street (I lived at Fence Houses) but I used to work at Brough's Grocery Store at the top end of the main street and then I went to work at RODNEY DRESSES factory as the wages were a bit better and I was very happy there. My friends and I enjoyed going to the Empire (?) Ballroom which was in the market square at that time and also to the various cinemas which I believe do not exist any more. I now live in Buckinghamshire where I have been for more years than I like to think about, but when I go back I always visit Chester-le-Street and sometimes Birtley, as I have fond memories of both places. I feel sad as it has all changed so much.
