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Teesville, Eston Recreation Ground Gardens c1965
Teesville, Eston Recreation Ground Gardens c1965 Ref: T121004
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Year: 1965
Cargo Fleet Lane A memory of Ormesby, Cleveland London born, married a Yorkshire Rose, bought a house, semi-detached, corner of Cargo Fleet Lane/Bournemouth Avenue. 2 children born there (so they could play for Yorkshire, so my wife Margaret says). Many happy memories of walks to Stewart Park, going to the Fountain pub on a Sunday for a pint, walking everwhere. My mother Peggy Pinchin (now deceased) lived around the corner at Woburn Grove. Left to emigrate to Australia in 1973, moving to a place called Slacks Creek, which is outer Brisbane, now Logan City. Last edited: 11/08/2008 14:37 by Roger Hall |
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Year: 1953
Loss Of Childhood A memory of Ormesby, Cleveland I attended the local school at the bottom of Gisbrough Bank - I have several school photographs of myself and classmates. I had a fight with a school friend as to whose turn it was to serve the school dinner that day. This was sorted by a teacher who said - You do it today - to my school friend and to me - You do it tomorrow. My tomorrow never came. That night I was told that Mr Pugh my foster parent was very ill and that my sister and me would be going somwhere else in the morning. I felt so sad about this. I had a little friend called Rex Harris, others were Valerie and Tania. I never had the opportunity to say goodbye to them. I have lovely memories of the 1952 Coronation party. I went as the weather girl, my sister as a doll in a box - I think she won. I remember looking longingly at a copy of the royal stagecoach which was to be given as a prize - it was lovely. I went to brownies held in Ormesby Hall in the stables. I was an Eskimo and the lady maid - I had to walk on stage and say "Madam Snow White is outside and if you've not much work to do she would like to speak to you." We had a car and went out to Stoksley most weekends for an icecream. Our address was 14 Leamingtom Grove, off Cargo Fleet Lane, and our foster parents were Mr and Mrs Pugh. Mr Pugh died I remember going with him to his work at Dorman Long's. I picked up metal circular discs. When we were ready to go I had to clean my hands in a very large tob of swarfiga - I clearly remember the smell. I think he was a foreman, I would dearly love to find Mrs Maude Pugh. She may have died of course. Maybe a classmate would recognise my name as June Almond. I have other snipits of memory and would love to hear from anyone born in 1946 who would have attended this school at the same time... Thank you Ormesby for the memories - Buscelbox@aol.com Last edited: 03/09/2006 00:29 by June Thompson |
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Year: 1966
Cargo Fleet, All Gone Now! A memory of Cargo Fleet, Cleveland It is so sad that there is little of Cargo Fleet remaining, not only physically but also photographically. I have searched in vein to find photographs of this once strong community. Those I have are from when I was around 4 to 6 years old and only show outside of our house and a couple I have of the old school taken shortly before being demolished. Posted: 18/11/2007 01:34 by C Elliott |
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Year: 1954
Childhood A memory of North Ormesby, Cleveland I was born in the parlour of 25 Pierson Street in 1954. My Mam's name was Margaret (Meg) and my late father was Alf (or Hank) to his mates. He worked on the tugs on the River Tees. I don't have any memories of him as he died when I was four. I remember we didn't have a lot but then neither did most of the street. Mam had me and two sisters and three brothers to look after, not an easy task with no breadwinner but we managed and one thing I always remember was my happy childhood. Playing in the streets with all the other kids, running messages for people, mam telling us not to take money for doing it (but we did). We were told to mind our p's and q's and always say please and thank you. If you saw a policeman you'd run a mile even if you hadn't done anything. Friday night was bath night. We had a tin bath hung up in the yard and we would bring it into the kitchen and fill it up using an Ascot gas boiler, it took forever to fill. No central heating then, mam would let us light the oven and keep the door open to heat the room, then there was the outside loo which froze in the winter so we burned a candle in there to try and stop it freezing, cor, the good old days. I remember the old cobbles in the road being tarmaced, it was great because we could rollerskate up and down the street, if you only had one skate we placed a book or board on top of it and then sat on it to ride along the road or pavement (that's where skateboards came from?). I started Lawson Infant School at the age of five, all I remember was the sand pit some canvas beds outside to sleep on in the afternoon, and the bigger kids playing with hoola hoops and stilts, oh and plastic money and a set of scales. I then went to Smeaton Street School for Boys until I left at the age of eleven. The trolley buses would turn around and head back to South Bank just outside our playground, we would watch the drivers reconnecting the electric supply poles to the overhead cabbles and they would always send sparks flying to the ground. Market day was always good as I got either a toffey apple or a toffey dab and I would run home as fast as I could. Other things I remember, the big lamps the stallholders used in the winter to light up the stalls. There was a pet stall where we bought our dog Kim. My sister Ann went out to buy a hairdryer and came home with him. All in all it was a great place to live, very different from today. My street and all around it were pulled down in the 60s. Well that's a few of my memories, would anyone else like to add to them - feel free. Last edited: 18/03/2008 14:44 by John Hutchinson |
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Year: 1890s
Family Tree A memory of Middlesbrough, Cleveland My father's family came to Middlesborough at the time of the Pig-Iron. He came from Worcestershire, around Lye. His name was Robert Jepson. He had 4 sons and 1 daughter. Charles Jepson, being my great grandfather. Fred Jepson, his son being my grandfather. Fred and his brother Frank were professional footballers for Spennymoor United Football Club, and received a medal medallion which hangs on a necklace. I still have it. It declares that they won it in 1917. Frank ran a newsagent in Middlesborough. His brother Harold drove trams for the town of Middlesborough, and then Reginald, who died in 1941, and a daughter Gladys Jepson. It is not known whom Gladys married, and it would be interesting to know. So, if there is anyone out there whose mom was Gladys, please contact me. Fred Jepson had 2 children - Constance and Dennis, my aunt and my father. It would be great to hear from anyone that remembers him. Last edited: 24/11/2008 09:01 by Evelyn Jepson |
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