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Church Street
I was born above the barber shop and Chronicle office on Church Street, if anyone knows it please reply. I would love to talk to anyone who lived there. I was born in 1949 and went to Walker R.C. School, I can't find any photos of Church Street, has anyone got any? My email is: davyallan06@hotmail.co.uk - if you have some, would you send me some?
The Regal Picture House And The Dene Near Walker Graveyard
I lived in Walker Dwellings in X Block, directly opposite of one of the entrances to Walker Park, from 1943 to 1946. I am looking for old photographs of Church Street and Walker Park. Also I would like contact with anyone from that time.
Walker Folk
I lived at 40 Church Street at the bottom of Hexham Avenue from the 1950s, in my mind's eye I can still see me ma black leading the big black fire range, she made the most wonderful bread in its big cast iron oven. In the yard we shared with Mary Dickson was the outside netty and wash house with a copper and a big mangle, me ma would be working for hours soaking the washing, dolly blueing it, washing it then rinsing it before putting it all through the mangle, my 2 big sissters would catch it and fold it before hanging it on the line in the back lane. Me ma had a big family and 4 of us young uns shared a bed, me, Lilly and Nelly at the top and Spider who wet the bed at the time slept at the bottom. People were poor but happy and I don't know how many of us would have managed without uncle George The Pawn Shop, I... Read more
Good Old School Days !!!
I started Walker R C in the 1950's and remember my wonderful teacher called Miss Morgan - she was so sweet and kind. I had very long hair and she would often bring in lovely ribbons for me, I was very shy and she was so very kind to me and every one else. The playground seemed so big and I felt overwhelmed - I'd never seen so many kids in one place. Many of the boy's boots looked ill fitted and some had the seat hanging out of their pants, and the girls didn't look much better - their clothes looked too small or too big. Times were hard, many kids couldn't go to school because they had no shoes and a lot of kids went to school without a warm drink or any breakfast. Still, most mornings we were all asked for our pennies to buy a baby as they called it in those day they wouldnt dare call it that now thankfully. What... Read more
The Original Slum
In order to accommodate an addition to the family, my parents decided to move into an upstairs flat in Parker Street, Byker.
The flat consisted of 3 bedrooms, a sitting room and a small room with a sink and gas cooker which served as the kitchen.
From the kitchen was an open wooden stair case, leading into the backyard which contained the outside toilet.
Bath night for me and my sisters was Sunday night, taking turns in a zinc bath in front of the fire, I always seemed to be the last, because being a boy I was deemed to be the dirtiest.
To overcome this bathing problem I soon found that for 4 old pence I could enjoy a night swimming at the local baths just off Brinkburn St, which was one way of staying clean, but for hours after you always stank of chlorine.
If I thought that life was hard, then some of our neighbours where much worse off, across the road... Read more
My Nanna And Grandad's House
I remember the stairs and the smell of carbolic soap, when visiting my Nanna and Grandad. There were lots of people living there, all in a 1 bedroom flat with just a scullery and a dining/sitting room. 5 children and sometimes there parteners and grandchildren all lived there. It was a happy house and going upstairs on to the landing. that smell was with you for days after I came home. The cobbles in the lane, and the outside toilet down stairs at the back. Mam had married and moved away to Stanley and they are still there, happily married for 57 years.
Nanna and Grandad are long since gone and have left me with some memories. Aunts, uncles and cousins all still live in the area or surrounding areas.
The coal man coming down the street and the kids chasing after it to collect any coal that dropped. The tin bath in front of the fire, I still don't like the cold sides of the... Read more
Saturday Mornings at The Ritz
Me and my brother David would get our breakfast then run down Prospect Avenue North to the bus stop beside the shops and once in Clyde Street at Wallsend bus stops made our way to join the huge queue for entrance to the Ritz. We were ABC Minors and that song still sticks in the mind............
We are the boys and girls well known as,
We're Minors of the ABC,
And every Saturday we line up,
To see the films we love,
And shout aloud with Glee!!!............
One Saturday the famous Russian clown COCO came to the Ritx and he said if anyone was going to Bertram Mills Circus on the Town Moor and he spotted anyone wearing an ABC badge, he would come over to them. We went with my Dad and sure enough he spotted us wearing our badges...I got a huge signed photograph from him and he signed my brother's programme.
And what about the Christmas when we all received a box of Welchs' luxury... Read more
