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Jimmy Malone
I was born and lived in Forest Hall. My father Gerry Malone was also born in Forest Hall, his cousin Jimmy Malone, lived in West Allotment, he used to sing in a lot of social clubs around the area, and also in West Allotment Social or Working Mens Club. I was told that he had a wonderful voice. Sadly he passed away a few years ago. Does anyone remember him?
Brenda Malone.
The Three Pitches
I was born and lived in Forest Hall, 1952-1968. I have happy memories of Palmersville, a lot of my friends lived there. We used to hang around the three pitches, in those days, the large football field. I remember Ords Farm, went strawberry picking there a few times in the school holidays. I remember Thorrington's shop, that's where we bought our sweets with our 2s 6p pocket money. Then there was the Co-op shop, that was just a bit further up the road from Thorringtons. Then of course there was the old Cement Houses, opposite Thorringtons. My great-great-grandparents lived in one of them, 1905-1917. They were demolished back in the 1960s.
Brenda.
Not Exactly Backworth
I was born in May 1950 at 85 Killingworth Avenue, Castle Park, Backworth. I was the only child in the street for a few years and I remember going into everyone's house for biscuits. I played with everyone's cats and dogs and played in their gardens. I remember my third birthday and watching the Coronation on my Nana's new television, that was 1953. In September 1953 we moved across the road to Number 78 Killingworth Avenue and my sister was born.
I started school in 1955 and remember walking into Annie Browns sweet shop on my way to school (Backworth County Primary School). I can still see the complete layout of the school, the smell of vegetables cooking in the kitchens, the smell of the toilets across the yard. Falling over in the PE lesson and getting a huge pebble stuck in my knee (still have the scar). My first teacher was Mrs Broadbent, then Mrs Robson and then Mrs Dunn (they were both in the 'huts'). Standard 1... Read more
Old Shiremoor
Does anyone have any photos of old Shiremoor as I remember it in the 1960s? The fibreglass factory, the brickworks, the Methodist chapel and the colliery rows, old Emerson Place, the area behind the Blue Bell. The dolly washer on the pit heaps behind Stanton Road, the burn that's now in a pipe that I used to dam and flood the fields! Best playground a young kid could have, no wonder kids now have nothing to do, no pit ponds even... That whole area was great to grow up in, there were loads of old buildings to play in and ponds to raft on. The place is sterile now and heartless and soulless too.
Rod Leyburn
Does anyone remember the 'Britain in Bloom' and Rod's efforts? We are fundraising in his memory to keep his memorial trophy alive, any memories or photos would help. Thank you, Dianne Bainbridge, nee Leyburn
Forest Hall
Pitts Butchers, the Misses Armstrong next door shop, Gargetts bike shop.
Joyce Dick
Granville Drive
Happy Days in Forest Hall.
I was born and lived in Forest Hall, 1952-1968. I have very happy memories of living in Forest Hall,as a child. I was born and lived in my grandparents' house, in Firtree Avenue, until I was 2 years old, then I lived in Granville Drive, until I moved down south with my parents in 1968. I went to Delaval Road Primary School, and my friends and I used to buy our sweets on the way to school at Stowbies, I remember having 2 shillings and sixpence pocket money a week then, that would pay for my sweets on the way to school, most days and for the Ritz - Saturday morning pictures. My other memories of Forest Hall are - the railway line that ran from Westmoor to Rocket Way, and the old signal box with the signalman sitting in there, that was next to Richardsons Garage. I remember Browns newsagents further along. Then there was Springfield Park, I used to spend many an hour or two in there with... Read more
