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My grandparents lived in Hearts of Oak Cottages and we used to go and see them on Sundays with my dad and brothers while my mam made dinner. We would walk down the old line. My dad took us to the engine room at the colliery ...Read more

A memory of Nantyffyllon in 1957 by Eira Waite

I lived and went to school in Shotton Colliery, and hated the place. Luckily I realised that living there was not for me, so at the age of 16 I joined the RAF and was posted to Wiltshire, clean air, beautiful rolling downs, ...Read more

A memory of Shotton Colliery in 1950 by Edward Falcus

I was born at 87 Victoria Street in 1945. My father was a miner and worked all his life in Caerau colliery. My mother came from London with her brothers and sisters, they were evacuated to Caerau after their house ...Read more

A memory of Caerau in 1953 by Colin Evans

Stockdales shop was owned by by grandma Winnie Stockdale and her husband Jim. She retired from the shop in 1965 and lived at Church Street, Cudworth. She opened the shop in about 1937. My grandad Jim worked at Monk ...Read more

A memory of Cudworth in 1956 by Peter Haigh

My sister and I used to visit our grandparents, Harry and Lily Bliss, who lived on Sandringham Drive, West Monkseaton. We would come down from Scotland in late June and stay for two weeks. Favourite memories include the Spanish ...Read more

A memory of North Shields in 1958 by Carolynne Briggs

When I was a girl we used to make dams in the river, and climb the mountain at the back of Duffryn Hotel at Coegnant colliery. It was a magic place to grow up in. I lived in Glanafon Terrace, and went to Tonna Road School. Horn was the ...Read more

A memory of Caerau in 1957 by Eira Waite

I was born in North Seaton Colliery and have very happy memories of my childhood and all the people who were part of my life. I left at 16 to work in Newcastle, the beach was perfect, never have I had such happy times, picking winkles and fishing for dabs.  Brenda Hudson as was.

A memory of North Seaton in 1956 by Brenda Cummings

I was born in Caerbryn in 1949 and I lived at 4 Caerbryn Terrace along at that time with my granny and grandad, mum and dad and my sister Gill who is thirteen months older than me. The terrace was then just the twenty ...Read more

A memory of Cae'r-bryn in 1959 by First Name Last Name

My sister Roberta and I used to walk from Ellington Colliery to the school at Ellington Village. My Nanna would wrap our dinner money and savings money in a handkerchief and see us off from the top of the first row. In ...Read more

A memory of Ellington in 1958 by Gerald Lamb

I lived with my family in Connaught Gardens from being born in 1949 to late 1960 when we moved to Shiremoor. At the end of our street was an overgrown, rubble strewn wasteland which we called 'The Croft'. A natural childrens ...Read more

A memory of Forest Hall in 1950 by Malcolm Wild