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Old Shiremoor

Does anyone have any photos of old Shiremoor as I remember it in the 1960s? The fibreglass factory, the brickworks, the Methodist chapel and the colliery rows, old Emerson Place, the area behind the Blue Bell. The dolly washer on the pit heaps behind Stanton Road, the burn that's now in a pipe that I used to dam and flood the fields! Best playground a young kid could have, no wonder kids now have nothing to do, no pit ponds even... That whole area was great to grow up in, there were loads of old buildings to play in and ponds to raft on. The place is sterile now and heartless and soulless too.

Written by Kevin Swithenbank. To send Kevin Swithenbank a private message, click here.

A memory of Shiremoor in Tyne and Wear shared on Sunday, 19th June 2011.

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RE: RE: Old Shiremoor

Hello Kevin. I recall all those places, and if you are the person I think you are, you lived with your dad and brother opposite Dickens/Boundry Mill. M.G Fyfe.

Comment from Mike Fyfe on Sunday, 25th March 2012.

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