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Seaton Sluice & Billy Mill
My grandfather John Johnson was born around 1900 and lived all his early life around Billy Mill and Seaton Sluice. He told me that as a boy of about eleven he spent two weeks' holiday with his friend, the lighthouse keeper's son, on nearby St Mary's island and that they were able to explore part of an ancient underground tunnel leading from the island to Seaton Delaval Hall. I believe they were only able to go so far before encountering a roof fall - I've often wondered if any trace of this old passage probably used for smuggling, still exists. His cousin Joe Robson was, I'm told, the lifeguard at adjacent Colywell Bay. My elderly aunt (now in her mid nineties) tells me that as a girl both she and her sister saw Joe as a Northumbrian Adonis patrolling the coastline and winning the admiration of all. When I had a chance encounter with him in the mid- seventies outside the Working Mens Cub at Seaton Sluice, he pulled my... Read more
My Early Years
I was born at South Newshamin 1934 and went to the local school, then on to New Delaval. Then we moved to the Newsham Road area and I then went to P. L. Rd. South Newsham was a great place to grow up in. My name was then Stafford.
Family Tree Hunting
i visited seaton sluice in feb 2007 to track where my father was born,silverhills,hartley.i managed to find the address he was registered at in 1901 census,but can anyone tell me anything about silverhills,or his family,his name was redvers wilson,born on 14 th may 1900,he had one sister that i met,called nancy,but am sure there were others.
The Old Wood Buildings That Were The Chip Shop And Butchers
Having grown up in Seaton Sluice I can remember the old wooden buildings that were the chip shop and the one next to it being the butchers. I can also remember them being pulled down and the present ones being built.
Tyne and Wear memories
Family And Friends 1942 to 1961
I was born Cramlington 1942, my sister 1940. l have some happy memories of Blyth, lived with mam and dad and sister Betty in Cowpen Row. Dad was in the army so did not see much of him then, when he came home we went to Rothburry, Easter it was Morpeth, Christmas it was all mam's family at our home, he was a baker at that time and his brother Robert but then went in the mines. He had another brother, Harold, worked in the mines, Granddad did too. That was the Chapple side of our family, they lived in Rowley Street, he still lived in the same house when l found him 6 years ago. My mum's side were Ainsley, Grandma and Granddad lived Seaton Delaval, Formans Row. There were 4 girls and 3 boys, Mum Hannah, Aunt Ethel, Sally, Annie , Uncle Alf, George, Albert. Remember Gran's cooking on the big black stove, the smell of bread. Grandad made clippy mats, Betty and l used to cut all... Read more
Whatever Happened to Blyth?
My family moved to Blyth in the early 1950s, leaving in 1959, just before everything seemed to go wrong. We had the Traveller's Rest pub at the junction of Regent Street and Thompson Street. On the other corner was Jack Turnbull's corner shop and further up, where the road takes a sharp turn, was a Co-op where the money was sent in a pod along a rail to the cashier who sent it back with the change and the 'divi' ticket. The pub was three storeys high, but the floors were rotten in the very top floor. This didn't stop the press using it to record ship launchings from the yard over the road. I remember ships being built from nothing, and it wasn't until the launching that they received their names. (I remember the 'Orangutan' and the 'Hamilton Trader'.) They were launched by famous people, but the only one I ever recognised was Professor Jimmy Edwards. The yard was very busy, as were the colliery and the railway station,... Read more
I am Trying to Trace Sid White, Saz Wilson And Ray Henderson
I went by the name of Tez back then and wondered if anyone knew where they were these days? My email is terry@tcon.demon.co.uk
Thank you
