Bishop Auckland, Newgate Street 1914
Photo ref: 67136
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Newgate Street is one of the features of the town -it marks the line of a section of the old Roman road of Dere Street. In 1914, on the whole the price of basic food stuffs had been fairly static for ten years. Tea remained the same at 1s 6d a pound; there was no change in the price of flour at 5d for 3lb. Sugar had fallen from 6d a pound in 1905 to 1d, but streaky bacon had risen from 9d a pound to 1s 3d.

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Approx 2 years working at SS LIngfords in Newgate Street. The old fashioned type of shop where you were served. We roasted our own coffee beans every Monday morning. Cooked our own "boiled" ham every week. Part of my job was to bone the hams prior to cooking in our own large boiler.We bought whole sides of bacon which were carved up, shoulders and hams, and I was taught how to bone them with the ...see more
i attended witton park school and was junior boy sports champion then attended escomb school and was sports champion in 63-64 have been trying for years to trace the shields cups from both to complete my family history i used to live at the baltic at the top end of witton park, if anyone can help me in this please contact me . i love going back just to see the place where i grew up , shame ...see more
My grandfather Thomas Edwin Mantle had a grocery and creamery in Newgate Street. He died before I was born but strangely my father Herbert Clayton eventually had his own store in Newgate Street, it was called H Clayton esquire, family grocer. I was two years old when we moved to Redcar in Yorshire. So I have no memories of my birthplace.