Peterlee In The 50s Early 60s

A Memory of Peterlee.

I was 2 or 3 months old in 1954 when the family moved from Wheatley Hill into a newly built council house on Kirkstone Road at the Horden end. My earliest memory is of sitting on the door step waiting for my brother (Bill) who was a year older to come home from school.
I followed him to Dene House Infants a year later before moving onto the junior school. I remember our teacher Miss Patterson and a teacher called Mr Miller. The head was Mr Westgarth. Mr Miller picked the school football team and whilst in the 1st year, I along with Michael Brown and Brian Little were selected to play with lads 4 years older. The only other player I remember is Peter Wolfe who was in the 4th year. One out of the 3 of us even managed to get a full England cap at football - I wonder who that was. When we got picked for the team we had to take our strip home and Miss Patterson got the girls to make us each a bag to carry it in.
The rest of my first 9 years of life are a bit of a haze but I do remember it snowing in the winter of 61/62 so hard that walking to school was akin to travelling through a high sided valley of snow.
My dad's pit (Wingate) closed so in July 1963 we moved to the midlands (Derbyshire) to live and memories of childhood friends is restricted to Michael Brown, Brian Little, James Dixon and Paula Hudspi(e)th.

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