Proud Lass From The Teams

A Memory of Gateshead.

Born in 1949 and living in Milling Street was the happiest and safest childhood you could wish for. My Gran and Grandad, Billy and Jessie Gibbons, lived in the same street. My name then was Ann Roberts and I went to Rose Street school and Vine Street Mission with Sister Winifred and Sister Kay. My Great Grandmother, Mary Dodd, also lived in the street and various uncles and aunties. I am so grateful growing up there in such a warm and caring environment. We may not have had much money but we had so much of the important things that money can't buy and my heart will always swell with pride when I remember the kind and caring people who lived on our street. God Bless them all.