Tees Street Sunderland

A Memory of Ryhope.

hey new at this game, have traveled the world,both with the army and as a security adviser to many arab and african nations but i was born and grew up on the bombed out streets of wear tyne and tees streets, the town moor was our playground, my brothers and lads on the corner, the cornerboys look after the street, mobray park is where we saw trees , the docks were the place where we made a tanner selling fish and crabs caught from the river to the chinese cooks on the boats,when i joined the army at 15years of age in 1961, i never never thought that i would end up in a regt from essex. but i did, many many years later,and many countres on, im proud that in my time i have employed dozens of men around the the world, guarded afew royal familes and am proud to be from the back streets of hendon

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