Newbottle Village

A Memory of Newbottle.

I remember coming from school and running up to the hillside fields helping Wheightman to load the hay onto his tractors and building the haystacks on North Pasture, off down to the yard pond looking for frogs and newts with Eddie Brown, Barry Cummings, Killer Francis and a few others.

I remember jumping the steam trains from Houghton Pit down to the coke works, one or two lads lost a toe or two when they slipped, into Lambton Baths run by Mr Morter then catching the train back to Sunniside, we would pinch a few apples from Bunker Hill orchard then run like hell with Robinson the village policeman on our tails, in for tea and "No ma, we haven't done anything wrong".

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