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Growing up in Gosforth 1960-1980
I am young enough to remember Gosforth as a thriving High Street and as a boy buying models from Boydells and my first singles from Woolworths, getting the 45 back and forth with my older brother to go to school too - we were 7 and 8. Witnessing the carnage as traffic volumes and lack of parking killed off many of the shops which became building societies, estate agents and shops full of bric-a-brac. After two decades of traffic congestion I believe the High Street is once again becoming a focal point for the community. At the top of this shot in the rain I shunted my mum's brown Mini into the back of a VW Beetle on my first 'accident.' I'd been driving for less than a year. At the age of 8 or so I narrowly escaped being flattend by a white Rover whilst cycling across a junction after the lights had changed. I'm still here!
Shops I Have Loved...
I grew up in Bath Terrace in the early 1960s and the photo of Wilkinsons brought back memories of its pre-supermarket days of high dark wood counters, butter in barrels and the smell of roasting coffee. Pumphreys with the pastel coloured sugars and exotic coffee beans, Moods where I bought a first gift for my mother of a tiny china cat in a woven basket (I still have it), Thorpes the hardware shop which I think is still there....I have the family's first electric Xmas tree lights we bought from there! They still work and have never needed a new bulb! Paradise slices from Robson and Porteous, wonderful creamcakes and Shrewsbury biscuits from the delectable Smythes, sweets and the first soft ("Tastee-Freez") ice cream from Hennells, Arkles the butchers where huge knives were wielded so noisily on the wooded butcher's block that my little brother and I were scared to go in. Henderson's the greengrocer, the Royalty cinema of course endlessly playing the Shadows' "Wonderful Land" between items. The Toddle... Read more
Quarry-Cottages-Wideopen-Weetslade
My great-great-grandparents came over from Ireland in the potato famine in 1840, and they lived at Quarry Cottages in Wideopen-Weetslade. My great-great-grandfather was a stone-quarryman in Wideopen.
Longenton in The 60's
The Arndale Shopping centre - next to Mary Magdalen's Church on West Farm Avenue. There were two large concrete and pebble waterfountains (that were switched off one day and were never switched back on again). There was also a little wooden roundabout nearby - that would be classed as too dangerous today - no special surface around it then - just plain, hard concrete. The ride was a bit wobbly too and many of us fell off or even worse, got serious cut and grazes to arms or legs trapped under the ride and dragged around with it when we fell off. Happy days eh?
There was a shop next door to the launderette, the kind that sold everything you could possibly want, from household or gardening stuff to toys and books, coal, paraffin etc. There were so many different, wonderful smells as you walked round the shop. At the other end of the block there was the Hadrian Supermarket with the coffee bar upstairs.... Read more
Chapel Street Longbenton in 1851
Does anyone have any information on Chapel Street in Longbenton around 1851? I am also interested in The Township of Ellington around 1841 especially Woodhorn.
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
