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Hold House
My husband's great-great-grandmother & grandfather started off married life at Hold House. They are shown to live there having been married one year on the 1911 census. Their names are Joseph and Whilemina Burrell. More info if you are doing this family tree.
My Childhood in Seaton Burn
Hi, my name is Margaret Thomas and before I was married I was Irving. I was brought up by my grandparents, Norman and Rosie Turnbull. They lived at number 2 Office Houses, which were pit houses. One of my memories was playing in the pit yard with friends and family, as this was my backyard. I did have good memories as well as some not so good.
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.
Throckley Fish Shop
Throckley Fish Shop was situated next to the Post Office. It was owned by the Humble family who were really nice people and made delicious fish and chips. Eddie and I think it was his son Freddy who worked there and kept the kids like myself hanging around in place. I'm sure I got a clip behind the ear hole a few times off Freddie, no doubt I would have deserved it. This would of been in the early 1960s, my memories of hanging around there go as far as up to when we were Mods on Scooters Lambrettas and Vespas covered in spotlights and mirrors all chromed up.
Stew and Colin McIvor, Jimmy Bolt, Charles Earl, Stew Pentland, Vic and Carl Ions were a few of the lads I remember had scooters. I still have some old photos of them outside those very shops. There was also a cafe opposite where we would hang out.
A couple of hundred metres further up was the Junior School where I went... Read more
I Remember
I remember going to Johnas bank and rolling Easter eggs down, also the big swing in the dean, it was called the witches swing. There was a hut at the dean entrance where the old men used to go and play dominoes and cards. There used to be overhead grabs full of coal leading from Walbottle pit to Throckley where the brickyard is now. Then there was the nudist camp up by the fell road, I don't know if it is still there now. I used to live at 3 Elem Street, that is where the old people's home is now. There was Johnny Miller who used to come round the streets with his mobile shop.
White City/Newburn Road.
We came to live at 12 Hewley Crescent in 1950. My gran, Mrs Knight, lived on Newburn Road, at that time she only had gas lighting and cooking. She had electricity installed in 1955 for the FA Cup on TV, she had a house-full that day. I can also remember when they built the Centurion public house 1954/5. There a large gang of us who lived in Hewley Crescent at that time, the crescent was used for football, cricket and sledging in the winter. I have fond memories of the time when I lived in Throckley. I also take the name to whereever I live and call my house Throckley.
Duffers
I remember when I was a young lad, playing down Johnnas Bank, we used to play Duffers "Dares", like jumping the widest part of the burn, seeing how many friends would fit on a swing and swing across the burn, sometimes the rope snapped. And we would dare each other to sit on the Devils Chair in the Low Dean, we used to climb and sit on the flat part, and someone would say "The Devil will get you", which was very frightening at such a young age but we had a good time. We also used to play football on the top end of Johnnas Bank near where the factories are now, and also we went to the old bomb hole to get tadpoles.
