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Pelaw maps
Historic maps of Pelaw and the local area, hand-drawn by Ordnance Survey and Samuel Lewis. View all Pelaw maps
Pelaw photos
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Gateshead| Monkton Village| Jarrow| Wallsend| Washington| West Boldon| Birtley| Dunston| Newcastle Upon Tyne| East Boldon| Gosforth| South Shields| Whickham| Cleadon| Lambton Park| Tynemouth| Sunderland| Cullercoats
Pelaw area books
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Tyne and Wear memories
Wardley as Was
Well, I was born in Lingey Gardens (at my grandparents' house, John and Ethel Holdsworth) in 1948, but I best remember Wardley when I was about 8 years. I remember the NCB coal waggon tipping coal in the road outside the houses of men who worked at the pit. I would then help to carry it in buckets to the coal house which was built into the side of the house, boards where put up in the doorway as the coal got higher. Next door was Mrs Goldsworthy, she had a daughter called Barbara. I remember going to the pit head with my grandfather (no H & S then) and watching a cage and men with dirty faces suddenly appear out of the ground behind a mesh gate, the gate was opened and they would stream out with bait tins, lamps, knee pads, and all manner of things hanging from belts, and a helmet made of compressed cardboard, I think. I remember the old Co-op near to the pit, with... Read more
THE SATURDAY MORNING MATINEE
THE SATURDAY MORNING MATINEE
Of course you remember it ... well most of us do!!!
It all seems so long ago now! but it's beginning to drift up from the fog of 'times gone by'. Hot and damp and steaming gently in the heat of the old Globe cinema at Gosforth (you sold more drinks and ice cream if you kept it very hot!) from the rain sitting there with our knees under chins and feet on the seat with sweaters pulled up to our eyes and pulled down over our knees so we looked like rows of strange beasts, so God help the ice cream girls! There must be about 1000 screaming children rooting for Roy Rogers and Trigger and hell bent on making as much noise as possible! But they never noticed that Roy's hat never fell off in a fight and that he had more lipstick on than Dale Evans his love interest. They would never imagine that poor old Trigger would end up being stuffed... Read more
An Old Building on The Bankies Near The Rocks
Does any one know what the old white building on the banks of Felling was?
Church Street
I was born above the barber shop and Chronicle office on Church Street, if anyone knows it please reply. I would love to talk to anyone who lived there. I was born in 1949 and went to Walker R.C. School, I can't find any photos of Church Street, has anyone got any? My email is: davyallan06@hotmail.co.uk - if you have some, would you send me some?
The Regal Picture House And The Dene Near Walker Graveyard
I lived in Walker Dwellings in X Block, directly opposite of one of the entrances to Walker Park, from 1943 to 1946. I am looking for old photographs of Church Street and Walker Park. Also I would like contact with anyone from that time.
Co-Op Thief
Very intiguing the story of Joseph Noble who was a blacksmith and robbed the Co-op store in 1907 in Co-operative Terrace. Any-one know anything else about this story?
The Park at Windy Nook
Circa 1956 I lived in Carr Hill and my dad would take me to Windy Nook Park. A lady in one of the houses around the area gave me sweets. Later on he found out that the woman had poisoned a few of her husbands to get the insurance money. She was supposed to be in the newspaper etc and was called the widow of Windy Nook! How true that is I don't know. Has anyone else heard the story?
