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Where this picture is taken from, is a Chinese restaurant,  go there every Sunday for the all you can eat buffet which is £10. The Co-op, or the Cooperative at it is now known as, is still there, Cooperative rocks lol! Next to the restaurant is a empty car park!

A memory of Heaton Mersey by Caz Thomas

I grew up in Heaton Mersey from age 6 to age 26 and left in 1955. This parade of shops included 2 Grocers- the Co-Op and John Williams- Fitchett's the butchers, a barber's and Edgar Barker the local Pharmacist who encouraged me and ...Read more

A memory of Heaton Mersey in 1955 by Rene Sutch

i visited seaton sluice in feb 2007 to track where my father was born,silverhills,hartley.i managed to find the address he was registered at in 1901 census,but can anyone tell me anything about silverhills,or his family,his ...Read more

A memory of Seaton Sluice in 2007 by Pauline Wilson

I have many happy, if rather boozy, memories of Downderry! I first went there in 1983 until my final visit in 1996, where I had 12 fantastic holidays there, most of the time in glorious sunshine. I went with my parents each year ...Read more

A memory of Downderry by Christopher Whittle

Hi all, was wanting to know more about North Seaton as my beautiful mum was born there. She was born in 1919 and passed away 2 years ago. She was the only child of Robert and Margaret Johnson who migrated to Australia when she was ...Read more

A memory of North Seaton by Wayne Toohey

I was born in North Seaton in 1943, very fond memories of the time growing up and of the beach at the mouth of the Wansbeck. Memories also of Ashington as a teenager, I left the area in 1962 but still return regularly to visit .

A memory of North Seaton in 1954 by Bill Kinnaird

I wa Born at Greenhedges Westmeston in 1947, and spent all of my wonderfull childhood in Ditchling , I do however remember the dreadfull headmistress of the local St Margrets primary school with horror, she made both my and my elder ...Read more

A memory of Ditchling by John Morley

In the early years of our married life, no such luxury as owning a car, our means of transport was a tandem with a seat on the back for the little one and a bike for the older one, most Sundays it was off out into the country, Beeston Castle ...Read more

A memory of Crewe in 1952 by Ken Wood

I moved from Blyth to Seaton Sluice into a newly built house in Cresswell Avenue in 1957. Life as a child in the village was exciting; most days we would either play on the beach and harbour or the new ...Read more

A memory of Seaton Sluice by Stuart Mc Leod