Nostalgic memories of Wallsend's local history
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For many years now, we've been inviting visitors to our web site to add their own memories to share their experiences of life as it was when the photographs in our archive were taken. From brief one-liners explaining a little bit more about the image depicted, to great, in-depth accounts of a childhood when things were rather different than today (and everything inbetween!). We've had many contributors recognising themselves or loved ones in our photographs.
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Displaying Memories 31 - 40 of 47 in total
Central Girls school Wallsend was operational during the ten years I was there from 1941.
It was one of three large units that were respectively, The Infants, Boys, and Girls. We were segregated once we survived the 'Infant's, and the only time I recall any association with the 'Girls,' was when a radical experiment allowed us to substitute woodwork for cookery lessons! A lovely lady called Miss(?) Terry taught us ...see more
Born in the Green Maternity Hosp 1954, lived in Windsor Drive, Howden, Sandown Gardens, Howden and Prospect Ave. I remember being taken to the Masons Arms at Bigges Main in a pushchair, parked outside the corrugated iron lean to off-license in the rain with a bottle of pop and a straw. I remember joining the 8th Wallsend (St Johns) scouts at 6 years old after being rejected by the 7th wallsend troop for not being ...see more
I was the born at the Green in Wallsend. I used to live in Holy Cross and I remember the burn, the old cemetery at the top of our road and shopping on Wallsend High Street. My dad was a supervisor at the Rising Sun Pit. We also lived in Longbenton on Chesters Ave, no 23 to be exact, I started school at Balliol. I remember taking the bus up to Four Lane Ends to do a bit of shopping with me mam. My grandparents, Leslie ...see more
Does any one have old photos of the Apprentices Strike?
This was where my father was born and lived until the houses were demolished in the late 1930s.
Anyone got any information they could share, as I have a set of memories from my dad that I am trying to build upon.
I lived in Gainers Terrace in the 60's with me ma, da, and brother Tom. I loved seeing the ships being built from my bedroom window, late at night the room would be all lit up with the light from the welders! My mother's cousin Thommasenna, known as 'Enna' lived downstairs to us with her husband and little'uns. It was a lovely little road to live in mind, the women did used to moan when they brought the washing in ...see more
I was raised in Rosehill, Wallsend and was born at The Green in 1944. We lived at the top of Rose Bank and I went to the Central Infants and Junior Schools then to the Stephenson Memorial Secondary Modern in Howdon. We lived in a very small terrace house but as my parents divorced in the early 1950's there was only my mother and I so the house, although still tiny even for two people, was a happy place. I ...see more
I was born at 15 Nelson Cresent, Percy Main on 29 April 1952.
I was the youngest of 5 children of my parents Henry and Edna May Lake.
My sisters were Elizabeth Beryl, Patricia Heather, Veronica Norah and Edna May.
I grew up at the same time and in the same Nelson Crescent as Christine Ferguson, Terry Stephenson, Ian Tate, Lorrie Edwards, Helen Bell and Irene Dunn.
I attended St Cuthbert's Infant's School, St ...see more
We used to live in Gateshead but because father was away in the RAF he thought we should live closer to his brother who lived at 116 High Street East, Wallsend, so we managed somehow to get a house at 16 Third Street, Palmers Buildings, the move was done with the use of a lorry that delivered coal, we did not have much anyway. Air raids were coming regulary, the house we left only had gas for cooking ...see more
I was born in Wallsend in 1951 at the Green and first lived at Rose Hill.
Everything about the High Street, the shipyards (Slipway, NE Marine, Swans), the Rising Sun Pit, St Peter's School, the Grammar, the Burn, the Gut, the Green, the Park, the Shows, the Riverside Railway, brings back the fondest memories.
I must have had the best childhood, poorish, but happy, in the safest place with greatest ...see more