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Early Years
I was born at 37, Ravenshill Road in 1955. I can remember a man on a bike sharpening knives and scissors on a grinding wheel attached to the front, also a man with a pony and trap would take you for a ride round the block for a penny. My friends at the time were Eric Rawson and Ian Bracken, I wonder where they are now. There was a burn that used to run down the back of the houses, my mam used to go mad if we played down there as we would have only been about 4 years old. I left West Denton to move to Westerhope in 1960.
A Lovely Girl And A Bonny Place
It's a bit unfair to say my memory is from 2000, as it actually goes back to when I was born (1980) and only ends last year (2008).
My earliest memories are of being at my Aunty Stella's. She wasn't really an Aunty, just a really old family friend. An amzing woman; she had a long-service medal from the army due to technically going AWOL after the war, and another medal from the Pope for her charity work. Unfortunately she died in about 2003, still sorely missed.
After that I met a girl from the area and spent many happy days with her in the area, in the Denton pub and in the burn. There's a lot of other memories, but most of them a probably a bit dull to others! I hope you have had some good times round there, it's a lovely spot.
Happy Days
I used to hang out in the early 1960s at the youth club on Slatyford Lane as a young teenager, also at the Miners Hall on Slatyford Lane. I met my future husband Rob Shaw (RIP). We used to go to the Denton Hotel for fun later in the 1960s, what great days. I remember the first Beatle song on the radio, the first Teddy Bot in Denton Burn (does anybody know his name?). I had a red transistor radio and about twenty of us kids gathered on the corner of the West Road to listen and dance and sing to the music. I moved to California in the late 1970s but will always remember those happy days of my life forever in my heart. I was recently visiting and saw that the Co-op is still there but a lot has changed, not always for the better. I would love to hear from anybody who remembers me from those days. Howay the lads! Anne, formerly Pigg. Email: shawcastar@aol.com
Photos
HELLO all, I'm planing and organizing a fashion show project. I'm wanting to do it around what the fashion was like in the 1960s IN THE WESTEND OF NEWCASTLE, but finding it very hard as I don't know what the fashion was like back then. If anyone has any photos that you would like to share to help me with my project, please contacted me by email on: Michaela_Davidson@live.co.uk Thanks :)
1955/1978
Growing up and living in Lindfield Avenue, playing football in the street or up at Blakelaw Park with my brother Ken. Later playing for Montague and North Fenham Boys Club under Dicky Almond (Big Dick). Some games later for West End Boys club. Rokeby and Blakelaw Social Club. Earlier memories of playing around the streets, sledging in the snow and playing around in the old air raid shelters on Stamfordham Road. Dad (Mr Lydon) used to play the bagpipes in the garden and in the street.
Lemington
I lived in the white houses up Union Hall Road as a lad growing up. I went to school at the bottom of Lemington (Infant) then next door to (I think it was called) Newburn Hall, then to Waverley Cres, then we moved up to Claremont County Secondary Modern School at the top of Claremont Avenue.
I remember shopping with my mam at the bottom of Lemington where the Co-op was, we had all the shops - fruit, butchers, haberdashery, grocery. Next to the grocery over the road was the Lemington telephone exchange. On the other side of the road we had a fruit shop, post office and more shops before the bridge going towards Newburn.
Everything has changed now - no more Co-op or exchange, even the glassworks has gone. I can remember playing along by the pit heap, and the old coal wagons getting pulled up and down the line bring coals from the put at North Walbottle where my dad worked.
Going up the bank we used... Read more
Lemington Dance
Lemington Dance was held in a prefabricated building at the bottom of Woodburn Street, we used to go there on a Saturday and Sunday night, in fact I met my husband there. We would dance to all the 60s' music, great times. I think theres a housing estate there now. I worked at the local hairdressers (Rosemarys) on Rokeby Street further up the street from my old school. Happy days. My dad worked at the glassworks which has also gone. I lived in Claremont Avenue opposite the Paniards where yet another housing estate has been built.
