Newbiggin by The Sea

I was born and brought up in Newbiggin by the Sea, till I left for Scotland  in 1998. All my family is buried in St Bartholomews', Taylors, Clark, Arkle, Dunn, Peel, Maughan, just to mention a few. My granda was called Jimmy Taylor(nicknamed Keywall Jimmy), him and his brother in law (Sammy Clark) was never seperated, they used to go everywhere together including the Central Club, hehe. My uncle worked at Wallaw cinema, Jim Taylor. I can remember when I was 4 yrs old in 1960 and my brother Stephen (then 6 years old) was put on a double decker bus to head to the Saturday matinee, where my uncle was supposed to meet us off the bus, but my brother decided to get off one stop early and go to see our nana at North Shields. Oh yes we got on another bus and we did get there only to get a good hot backside when we arrived as no one knew where we had gone. I can laugh at this all the time cos when we were brought home we were grounded, and put into our bedrooms. So we decided to have a pillow fight with the feathered pillows (bolster). My mam (Lena Peel, nee Taylor) and dad (Gerald Peel) came up the stairs to get us for our teas but guess what, they couldn't get in the bedroom for feathers. OMG I'm still laughing yet, hehe. Yes we were grounded again for longer, but the moral of the story is we are still here today. Those were the days. Good old Newbiggin.