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Weirdly Strange
looking at the picture my house isnt even built its weird to see how much it has changed over the years... i live next door to the church- where it looks like their is just land!
Photograph Circa 1890
I have an old photograph and I believe it is this street before some of the buildings were built and it was taken further down. However, the Church in the background is the same. John Oswald Clazey and his family are gathered at a place called Boldon House on the back of the photo. There is a picture of the family in the back yard and then a photo of them in the front by a brick wall of sorts. I am more than happy to provide a copy if there is any interest.
Tyne and Wear memories
The Railways of Boldon
I can remember setting off to London to see my sister from Boldon Colliery station and this started my interest in railways. I was hooked and was a regular at the station in the years of 1959 to 1963, trainspotting and being amazed by the variety of trains passing through. Several diverted trains and extra traffic workings were regular on this line and this was interesting to the spotters.
Added interest was the Tyne Dock to Consett line with long heavy coal and ore trains. Although these were heavy frieght workings by regular locos they were a sight to be seen. A 9F battling its way with full ore wagons, billowing smoke and heading to Consett, showed the power of these workhorses.
At Boldon station the V2s pulling the mail, paper and semi express trains were a magnificent sight from a distance, then the diesels were starting to take over, thus adding more interest.
So Boldon has seen the most types of trains that ran in the North East... Read more
Denise, Nee Young, Now Jackson
I remember Wilton Gardens prefabs, and playing with all my friends every school holiday, down the burn and sliding on cardboard down the banks and walking along to the bingo to meet my nana (Edna Young) with her 2 Yorkshire terriers, Tina and Penny, and calling in at the fish shop on the way home. Also church discos at weekends, playing Slade and Donny Osmond etc ... My friends' names were Angela Hemmingway, Patricia Findlay, Susan Bradshaw, Karen Thompson, Jackie Johnson (great cousin), Kevin McCord, Dale Oxley, Stephen Flemming, Terence Flemming, Cyril Smith, Kenneth Young and many more .... Fantastic memories, and a great life spent with my lovely late nana -my street name was Tarzan, given by the kids I knocked around with ... My nana was Aunty Edna affectionately known to them all, she was the best!
Station House
My dad was the Station Master at Boldon Colliery Station from 1952-1959. We lived in that huge house on the station that rattled with every steam train that went through. My brother and I played on the cars and engines that were in the railway sidings. There were a number of kids living in the Railway Cottages and we all went to school in the village. Tommy Robson had a paper shop then and came every morning to pick up the papers in his van and saved us kids from that long walk to school - he jammed all of us in on top of the bundles of papers, some of us sitting on the end with our feet sticking out - that wouldn't be allowed these days. Our playground was the railway sidings, the burn down below, and the pit heap.
I can still see my mam peddlng her old sit up and beg bike with the dog running behind her as she cycled to pick up... Read more
What Was it Down The Burn?
In and about 1960 I was a boy who spent many an hour down the burn, at one end just below the station part of the burn had very sturdy concrete walls at either side, these walls were some sort of supports or foundations, they could have been part of a high bridge from the colliery to the station, possibly during the war years. I would like to know if anyone else remembers this, or knows what they were. e/mail wardley41-dur@yahoo.co.uk
Station Cottages
I lived in the Station Cottages at Boldon Colliery from 1949 till 1962. I have a load of happy childhood memories there. We all knew each other in the cottages because there were only 10. I spent all my school years at Hedworth Lane Infants and Juniors and then went on to New Road Comp. Myself (Marjorie Walker) and my 2 brothers, Robert and Stephen, spent our whole childhood playing on the burn. When we first went there it was remote, there was no Brockley Whins and Biddick Hall estates then, we we were in the middle of fields. We had a few friends in the cottages, Jjean and John Wiper, Valerie and Barry White, Carol Locking, Stanley Dixon and many more. I still remember the names of all our neighbours there. Happy memories. But the cottages were demolished a long time ago.
