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Eighton Lodge
Hello does anyone remember Eighton Lodge, now a care home for the elderly, as a care home for unmarried mothers? I was placed here at the age of 16 years of age in 1982 until my 17th bithday when I gave birth to my daughter on that very day. I would appreciate any information, on the history and when it finally closed. Thank you for reading this.
John Southern
Hi, I'm trying to find some information about my granda's mam. My granda is John Southern and he was born 14th November - I think it was in 1926. He had 2 older brothers. His mother Jane Southern died when he was about 10 years old from cancer - his father then remarried. He lived in Windy Nook all of his young life. Please get in touch if you or anybody you know could help me.
The Park at Windy Nook
Circa 1956 I lived in Carr Hill and my dad would take me to Windy Nook Park. A lady in one of the houses around the area gave me sweets. Later on he found out that the woman had poisoned a few of her husbands to get the insurance money. She was supposed to be in the newspaper etc and was called the widow of Windy Nook! How true that is I don't know. Has anyone else heard the story?
Co-Op Thief
Very intiguing the story of Joseph Noble who was a blacksmith and robbed the Co-op store in 1907 in Co-operative Terrace. Any-one know anything else about this story?
Tyne and Wear memories
Hewson Street
I grew up in Hewson street, my parents were Peggy and Ernie Gills and we lived in our grandparents house (Meggie and Bill (Scotty) Jackson). I loved a Sunday when all the family would call to see us - the tiny flat would burst at the seams. We were sent to the shop on the corner of the street called Robbies, for broken bicuits and loose butter. We would play in the lane for hours, or go to the park,and then home for a wash in the tin bath. Mondays was wash day and mam and gran would be washing clothes in a poss tub. It had a mangle to squeeze the water out of the clothes. The best fun was when the coal was delivered. They used to dump a ton of coal outside the back door and we used to help shovel it in the coal house, it was hard work, but great fun. The neighbours would borrow a pail of... Read more
Sheriff Hill 1940
I would define the center of Sheriff Hill to be the intersection of Southend Terrace, Windy Nook Road, Sodhouse Bank, and Church Road. I was born not 100ft from the intersection on Windy Nook Road.
Our cottage ajoined the Travellers' Rest; in fact our coalhouse, 'nettie' and later the air raid shelter were abutting the 'Quoit' as it was called. I found out much later that the original name of the Travellers' was in fact The Golden Quoit. Across the road from us, on one corner was Bradshaw's sewing shop selling thread, zippers etc, and down the back, Stainthorp's butcher shop. On another corner was Charnwood's, a grocery shop, and then on the NW corner, Hida's general groceries.
Hilda's husband, I remember was Willie Robertson, the verger and gravedigger at St John's. I remember getting a tongue lashing from him when, as a child, I asked if he ever found a skull, to keep it for me.
Down the bank from Hilda's was Benny the butcher, and then Pegg's shop,... Read more
Childhood Memories
I grew up in Sheriff Hill. My great-gran Margaret Jackson lived on Hewson Street and I lived with my parents in Leeming Gardens in the flats. I used to be sent to the corner shop on Hewson Street. It was called Robbies. We would buy broken biscuits and if my mam was hard up you could run up 'tick' and pay at the end of the week. I used to go to Sheriff Hill School opposite St John's church on Church Road. We had a teacher whose husband was a vicar I think. She wasn't very charitable becase she would grab your cheeks and shake your head from side to side. I then went to Glynwood school. The headmistress was called Mrs Young and my teachers were Miss Burrows, Miss Henderson, Mr Bagley and Mr Waddington. We used to learn maypole dancing and the boys learned sword dancing on the fields at the back of the school. There was an old 'lollypop' man to take us over the road beside the... Read more
