Dunston, The Bowling Greens c.1955
Photo ref:
D226003
Photo ref:
D226003
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A Selection of Memories from Dunston
For many years now, we've been inviting visitors to our website to add their own memories to share their experiences of life as it was, prompted by the photographs in our archive. Here are some from Dunston
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Anyone know of a Josephine Storey born September 1952 and lived in this area. Would love to hear from you.
I lived in Dunston from 1946-1964. This area of Dunston was a place I knew quite well. The lamp post on the left was almost outside a dental surgery. I well remember the experience of having a tooth extracted here, and the staff's struggle to administer the gas anesthetic to knock me out! I learned to dislike visiting the dentist from here. To the right there were the "bankyfields". There used to be a ...see more
I am looking for anybody who went to the Dunston Board school in the 1930s. I want to trace friends of my father, namely Henry Preston Westwick who was born in 1923, or anybody who worked in the soap factory in 1935.
This is my first school, Dunston Hill Infant & Junior School, I started school the year the photo was taken, I fell off a small wall first day, I remember it vividly.
Favourite teacher in the junior school was a Ms Hallgarth, my first love.
I was born in Beech Drive only a few hundred yards down Dunston Road.
Part of a gang ('snake belt gang') including Howard and John Smith, Peter and David ...see more
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